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Professor Raymond Taras

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Contact Information

   Office:
   306 Norman Mayer bldg.
   New Orleans, LA. 70118

Email: taras@tulane.edu

Office Hours: W 10:00-12:00

Tel: (504) 862 - 8302

Current Courses

POLC 341 - Politics and Nationalism

This course reviews theories of nation building and identity formation and considers contemporary case studies of nationalism drawn from both advanced Western democracies and developing states. The conditions under which nationalism leads to ethnic conflicts and to political extremism will be assayed.

POLI 465 - Russian Foreign Policy

This course identifies the principal objectives of post-Soviet Russian foreign policy. It describes contemporary Russian foreign policy towards various countries and regions.

Research Interests

Nationalism, xenophobia, ethnic conflict, European transnationalism and international politics, Russian foreign policy, and world literature and politics.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications

Europe’s Rising Islamophobia: The Impact on Foreign Policy
University of Utah Press, 2010

Understanding ethnic conflict (with Rajat Ganguly)
4th edn. Longman, 2010

Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia
Rowman and Littlefield, 2009

Contributions to Cultural and Literary Studies

https://ent.tulane.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://americareads.blogspot.com/2009/10/interview-gerald-elias.html