Course Structure & Faculty
This year’s Olympia Summer Academy will cover topics like war, conflict, and identity.
Faculty
Stathis N. Kalyvas, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, Yale University Director, Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University
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Dimitris Keridis, Associate Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
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Monica Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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Andreas Gofas, Postdoctoral Researcher, IBEI (Institut Barcelona D’ Estudis Internacionals)
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Ivan Arreguín-Toft, Teaching assistant
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Laia Balcells
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July 4-13, 2008
Olympia, Greece
Course description
The objective of this course is to provide a concise, yet in-depth, overview of new theoretical and empirical research on a range of topics at the intersection of war, conflict, and identity, including interstate and civil war, terrorism, riots and genocide, and the dynamics of conflict. We will seek to survey cutting edge research and identify and assess emerging research agendas. The issues we will cover include the following: the variation in patterns and forms of violent conflict over time and space? The impact of identities on violence, and vice-versa; the causes and dynamics of civil war; the decline of interstate war and the rise of terrorism; state building and failed states.
