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BOOKS and MONOGRAPHS

-  Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World: Walker Connor and the Study of Nationalism.London: Routledge,  2002 [Paperback edition, 2004].  Edited by Daniele Conversi.
Contributions by: Walker Connor, Anthony D Smith, Joshua A. Fishman, John Edwards, William Douglass, Thomas Spira, Robert J. Kaiser, William Safran, John Stone, John Coakley, Donald L. Horowitz, Daniele Conversi and Brendan O'Leary.

- The Basques, the Catalans, and Spain: Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilization. London: Hurst, 1997 [American paperback edition published by University of Nevada Press, Reno, 2000]

- Translated in Catalan as: Els bascos, els catalans i Espanya. Entre la modernitat i la violència. Lleida: Pagès Editors, 2004

- German -Bashing and the Breakup of Yugoslavia, ("The Donald W. Treadgold Papers in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, nº 16, March 1998). University of Washington: HMJ School of International Studies (82 pp. )

-  La desintegració de Iugoslàvia. Barcelona/  Catarroja: Editorial Afers-El Contemporani,  2000 , 212 pp. (in Catalan) [ISBN 84-86574-87-0]

- 'Movimenti e conflitti etnoterritoriali'. Special issue of Partecipazione e Conflitto, vol. 2, n. 2, 2010. Edited by Adriano Cirulli and Daniele Conversi. ISSN 1972-7623, ISSNe 2035-6609. Contributions by: Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy, Christophe Roux, Yu-Wen Chen, Carlo Pala, Paolo Napolitano, Anna Maria Curcio.

- 'Nacionalismo y Homogenización'. Special issue of Historia Contemporánea, no. 44, 2012. Edited by Daniele Conversi. Contributions by: Ferran Archilés Cardona, Marta García Carrión, Daniele Conversi, Michael Fleming, Antonio Miguez Macho, Marco Perez, Maximiliano Fuentes.
 

• ‘Modernism and Nationalism’, Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 17, n. 1, pp. 13-34, February 2012. DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2012.644982.

  ‘Majoritarian democracy and globalization versus ethnic diversity?’, Democratization, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 789-811, April 2012, ISSN 1351-0347, DOI:10.1080/13510347.2011.626947

• ‘Irresponsible radicalisation. Diasporas, globalisation and long-distance nationalism in the digital age’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), vol. 38, no. 9, 2012, pp. 1357-1379. Special issue on ‘Migration and the Internet: Social networking and diasporas’ (edited by Ulf-Dietrich Reips and Pedro J. Oiarzabal). ISSN 1369-183X.

  ‘Nación, estado y cultura. Para una historia política y social de la homogeneización cultural’, Historia Contemporánea, no. 44,  2012, pp. 437-481. ISSN: 1130-2402

  ‘Presentación: Nacionalismo y homogeneización’, Historia Contemporánea, no. 44,  2012, pp. 431-436. ISSN: 1130-2402

  ‘Democracy, Pluralism and Diversity: India and the European Union between Globalization and the Nation-State’, in Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan (eds) The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India. London/New Delhi: Routledge, 2012, pp. 212-238. ISBN 978-0-415-81189-7.

  ‘Comparing European and American nationalisms: A response to Alberto Martinelli‘s Nationalism in the 21st Century ,Quaderni di Scienza Politica (Università di Pavia, Facoltà di Scienze politiche), vol. XIX (Terza serie- VI),  n. 3, December 2012, pp. 469-488. ISSN 1124-7959.

  (with Eric Kaufmann) 'Ethnic and Nationalist Mobilization', in Adrian Guelke and Jean Tournon (eds.), The Study of Ethnicity and Politics: Recent Analytical Developments. Leverkusen: Verlag Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2012, 250 pp. Special volume for the International Political Studies Association’s (IPSA) Research Committee on Politics and Ethnicity, RC14 (book series ‘The World of Political Science: The Development of the Discipline’, edited by Michael Stein and John Trent), pp. 47-77. ISBN 978-3-86649-452-7 (peer reviewed essay; See Table of Contents and Leaflet/Flyer) 

  ‘Cultural Autonomy, core values and Europe's legacy: A response to Joshua A. Fishman’, The International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL), focus issue on ‘Cultural Autonomy’, vol. 213, n. 1 (January 2012), pp. 63-70. ISSN 0165-2516, DOI 10.1515/IJSL.2012.006

• (with Adriano Cirulli) Introduzione, ‘Movimenti e conflitti etnoterritoriali: una introduzione’, in Partecipazione e Conflitto’, vol. 2, n. 2, 2010, pp. 5-14, DOI: 10.3280/PACO2010-002001, ISSN 1972-7623, ISSNe 2035-6609

• 'The limits of cultural globalisation?', Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, Issue 3, 2010, pp. 36-59
  -- Reprinted in Manfred Steger (ed.) Globalization and Culture. Cheltenham, UK/ Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2012. ISBN-13: 9780857934086
• 'Globalization, Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism', in Bryan Turner (ed.) Handbook of Globalization Studies. London: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis, 2010, pp. 346-366
• 'Building bridges on the road to peace. Centralism, resistance and the Basque revival', Political Geography, June 2010, DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.05.004
• 'Law and Nation: The rise of the juristes class and the rise of legal nationalism in Catalonia', H-Urban (H-Net Review). June 2010 (Review of Stephen Jacobson, Catalonia's Advocates: Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900)
• ‘Ideology and Nationalism’, in Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff  (eds) Handbook of Ethnic Conflict. London: Routledge (forthcoming)
• 'Homogeneity and conflict', The Review of Politics (review article) , Volume 72, Issue 02, March 2010, pp. 337-340 (Review of David Laitin, Nations, States, and Violence)
• 'Cultural Homogenization, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide', in Robert A. Denemark (ed.)The International Studies Encyclopedia. Oxford/ Boston, MA: Wiley-Blackwell/ ISA, vol. 2 (Co-Ec), 2010, pp. 719-742
• 'Dominant Ethnicities, Dominant Cultures and Cultural Resemblance', in Andre Lecours and Genevieve Nootens (eds), Dominant Nationalism, Dominant Ethnicity. Identity, Federalism, and Democracy. Bruxelles: Peter I. Lang, 2009, pp. 57-72 [LEAFLET]
• 'Art, Nationalism and War: Political Futurism in Italy (1909-1944)', Sociology Compass, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, pp. 92-117
• 'Globalization and Nationalism in Europe: Demolishing Walls and Building Boundaries', in Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Andrzej Marcin Suszycki (eds) Multiplicity of Nationalism in Contemporary Europe. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books, 2009, pp. 81-106
• ''We are all equals!' Militarism, homogenization and 'egalitarianism' in nationalist state-building (1789-1945)', Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 31, no 7, 2008, pp. 1286-1314
• 'Democracy, nationalism and culture. The limits of liberal mono-culturalism', Sociology Compass, January 2008, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 1-27 (doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00063.x).  - Reprinted in Kate Nash and Alan Scott (eds), Political Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell, Vol. 1 (2007), pp. 1-30
• - Reprinted in Ksenija Vidmar Horvat (ed.) The future of Intercultural Dialogue in Europe: Views from the In-Between.  Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, 2008
• Translated in Slovene as Prihodnost medkulturnega dialoga v Evropi: Vmesne perspective. Ljubljana : Filozofska fakulteta, 2008
• 'Homogenisation, nationalism and war: Should we still read Ernest Gellner?', Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 13, no. 3, 2007, pp. 371-394. This is one of the 10 most downloaded articles in N&N [see also the 'Cultural Homogenization Page ']
• 'Reconsidering the breakup of Yugoslavia: The international relations of central secession', Nationalities Papers, vol. 35, no. 5, November 2007, pp. 961-967 (review article)
•   'Demo-skepticism and genocide', Political Science Review, Vol 4, issue 3,  September 2006, pp. 247-262
• 'Asymmetric federalism: Spain, Italy and beyond', Ethnopolitics, March 2007, vol. 6, no.1, pp. 121?124  (contribution to a debate)
• 'Mapping the field: Theories of nationalism and the ethnosymbolic approach', in Athena S. Leoussi and Steven Grosby (eds), Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006 [download chapter 1]
•    'Genocide, ethnic cleansing, and nationalism', in Gerard Delanty and Krishan Kumar (eds) Handbook of Nations and Nationalism. London: Sage Publications, 2006 (vol. 1) pp. 319-333,  [ISBN: 1412901014]  [DOWNLOAD]
•  'Germany and the recognition of Slovenia and Croatia', in Brad K. Blitz (ed.) War and Change in the Balkans. Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006   [Paperback : ISBN-13: 9780521677738 | ISBN-10: 0521677734]
• Translated in Slovenian as 'Borba za priznanje samostojnosti', Teorija in praksa (Theory and Practice), vol. 41, No.3-4, July 2004, pp. 712-738
• 'Why do peace processes collapse? The Basque conflict and the three 'spoilers' perspective', in Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond (eds.). Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006, , pp. 173-199  [Download  Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond's Introduction here: 'Obstacles to peace processes: Understanding spoiling' ] (see review)
• 'Ethnic conflicts', in Don MacIver (ed.) Political Issues in the World Today, Manchester: Manchester University Press (Politics Today Series), 2005 [ISBN: 0719067057]
•   'Can Nationalism Studies and Ethnic/Racial Studies be brought together?', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), Vol. 30, no. 3, May 2004, pp. 815-829 (contribution to a debate)  [DOWNLOAD]
• 'The dissolution of Yugoslavia: Secession by the centre?', in John Coakley (ed.) The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflicts. London: Frank Cass, 2003  [DOWNLOAD]
• 'Ethnoradicalism as a mirror image of state centralization: The Basque paradigm in Franco's Spain' ,in Farimah Daftary and Stefan Troebst (eds) Radical Ethnic Movements in Contemporary Europe, Oxford: Berghahn, 2003, pp. 57-70. [ISBN: 157181695X]
• 'The smooth transition: Spain's 1978 Constitution and the nationalities question', National Identities, Special issue on 'Peripheral Identities in Iberia', vol. 4, no 3, November 2002, pp. 223-244  [DOWNLOAD]
• 'Conceptualizing nationalism', in Daniele Conversi (ed.) Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World. London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 1-23 [DOWNLOAD]
• 'Resisting Primordialism (and other -isms)', in Daniele Conversi (ed.) Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World. London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 269-290 [DOWNLOAD]
• 'Post-communist societies between ethnicity and globalization', Journal of Southern Europe & the Balkans , vol 3, n. 2, 2001, pp. 193-196 (review article)
•   'Central Secession: Towards a new analytical concept? The case of former Yugoslavia', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, April 2000, pp. 333-356 [ISSN 1369-183X].   [DOWNLOADABLE in pdf].       Translated in Serbo-Croat as 'Tko su bili secesionisti? Problem pogresnog identiteta u ratovima u bivsoj Jugoslaviji', in Carol Hodge and Mladen Grbin (ed.), Europa i Nacionalizam: Nacionalni identitet naspram nacionalnoj netrpeljivosti. Zagreb: Durieux, 2000, pp. 43-67 [ISBN 953-188-113-8].
• 'Autonomous Communities and ethnic settlement in Spain', in Yash Ghai (ed.) Autonomy and Ethnicity. Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 [ISBN 0521 78112 4 hardback/  ISBN 0521 78642 8 paperback]
• 'From centralist dictatorship to federal democracy: the case of Spain', in Günay Göksu Özdogan and Gül Tokay (eds). Redefining the Nation, the State, and the Citizen. Istanbul: Eren/ MURCIR (Marmara University International Relations Research Center) Publications, 2000 [ISBN 975-7622-75-3]
• 'Ernest Gellner, open societies and the Central European legacy', Nations and Nationalism,  vol. 5, n. 4, 1999, pp. 565-576  (review article) [ in PDF]
• 'Nationalism, boundaries and violence', Millennium: Journal of International Studies (special issue on “Territorialities, Identities and Movement in International Relations”), vol. 28, n. 3, 1999, pp. 553-584 [ISSN 0305-8298]
• 'Ideological fragmentation, cultural nationalism and state violence: Euskadi and Catalonia (1939-1968)', Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Vol 26, no. 1-2, 1999, pp. 37-52
• 'The Spanish federalist tradition and the 1978 Constitution', Telos, No. 112,  Summer 1998, pp. 125-144 [download]
• 'German shadows in the Balkan wilderness: International reactions to the recognition of Croatia and Slovenia', Revija za Sociologiju (Sociological Review), Zagreb: Croatian Sociological Association, no. 3-4, vol. 29, 1998, pp. 141-166 (ISSN: 0350-15X)
•   "Reassessing theories of nationalism. Nationalism as boundary maintenance and creation", Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 1, nº 1, Spring 1995, pp. 73-85.

- Reprinted in John Agnew (ed.) Political Geography: A Reader. London/ New York: Edward Arnold, 1997, pp. 325-36.
-Reprinted in John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith (ed.) Nationalism: Critical Concepts in Political Science. 5 vols. London/ New York: Routledge, 2000, Vol. 1. .[ISBN 0415201101]
- Reprinted in Cross, Malcolm (ed.) 2000 The Sociology Of Race And Ethnicity. Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar, 3 vols. (International Library of Critical Writings in Sociology), pp. 227(13)- 240(20) [ISBN:1858985692]
- Translated in Hungarian as 'A nacionalizmuselmélet három irányzata', Regio, Summer 1998, no. 3, pp. 37-55. -- With a supplementary interview ('Beszélgetés Daniele Conversivel', pp. 56-62).
•  "Moral relativism and Equidistance: British attitudes to the war in former Yugoslavia". In Tom Cushman and Stipe Mestrovic (eds) This Time We Knew. Western responses to the war in Bosnia. New York: New York University Press, 1996
•  'European Nationalisms: Is There a Decline of The Nation State?' In Justo G. Beramendi, Ramón Máiz and Xosé M. Núñez (eds) Nationalism In Europe: Past And Present. Santiago de Compostela: Santiago de Compostela University Press, 1994 , vol. 2, pp. 363-376 [ISBN 8481211966]
•   "Violence as ethnic border. The unintended consequence of cultural assimilation in Croatian, Kurdish and Basque nationalism". In Justo G. Beramendi, Ramón Maiz and Xosé M. Nuñez (eds) Nationalism in Europe: Past and Present. Santiago de Compostela: Santiago de Compostela University Press, 1994, vol. 1, pp. 167-198
• "The influence of culture on political choices: Language maintenance and its implications for the Basque and Catalan nationalist movements", History of European Ideas, vol. 16, nº 1-3, 1993, pp. 189-200
• "Domino effect or internal developments? The influences of international events and political ideologies on Catalan and Basque nationalism", West European Politics, vol. 16, nª 3, July 1993, pp. 245-270
• "Language or race?: the choice of core values in the development of Catalan and Basque nationalisms", Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 13, nº 1, January 1990, pp. 50-70 [cover/  back cover]
• "Ethnic Nationalism, Immigration and Political Violence: Notes from the Basque Case",  Ethnic and Racial Studies, nº 3, vol. 12, July 1989. pp. 401-407

REFERENCE WORKS

'Conflitti Etnici',  in Enciclopedia Italiana delle Scienze Sociali -Treccani, vol. 8, 2000, pp.110-124

'Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism', in Athena Leoussi and Anthony D Smith (eds) Encyclopaedia of Nationalism . Oxford: Transaction Books, 2000 [ISBN: 0-7658-0002]  [download pre-print here]

'Ernest Gellner's theory of nationalism', in Athena Leoussi and Anthony D Smith (eds) Encyclopaedia of Nationalism. Oxford: Transaction Books, 2000 [ISBN: 0-7658-0002]  [download pre-print here]

SELECTED  ARTICLES IN ITALIAN

• 'Il nuovo nazionalismo bianco', L'Indice, no. 12, December 2002, p. 35
• 'Identita' e leadership durante la transizione democratica in Spagna: Tra Federalismo e Stato delle Autonomie', in Arianna Montanari (ed.) Identita' nazionali e leadership in Europa. Roma: Jouvence, 2001
•  "Il modello federalista spagnolo", Ares, no. 2 (ns), luglio 1998
• 'Modelli comparativi nella gestione dei conflitti etnici in fase di transizione politica: i casi di Spagna ed ex-Yugoslavia', in Lara Bergnach and Antonella Pocecco (eds). L'affermazione della differenza come nuova mitologia ed il senso del dialogo. Gorizia: ISIG (Quaderni  dell'Isig) 1998, pp. 31-46.
• "L' insegnamento in Catalogna: verso una societa' bilingue ?", La Riforma della Scuola, nª 1, 1987, pp. 28-36 [translated in Rumanian as 'Bilingvismul în Catalonia' for the journal Altera (Bucharest), no. 12, 1999, special issue on 'Multiculturalism']
• "Teorie dell' etno-nazionalismo", in La Critica Sociologica , nª 81, summer 1987, pp.71-88.
• "Plurilinguismo e glottodidattica: il caso della Spagna". Proceedings of the Conference on "Lingue, nuove tecnologie ed unione europea", edited by Giuliana Mazzotti, Mantova, ottobre 1986. Milano: Marzorati, 1987, pp. 371-38O.
• "Gli studi sociolinguistici in Catalogna, dalla teoria alla prassi. Proposte per l'inclusione di una metodologia qualitativa". Annali dell' Istituto Universitario Orientale - Sezione Romanza , XXX, nª 2, 1989, pp. 473-483
• "Considerazioni sul caso catalano in una prospettiva comparata". In La Critica Sociologica , nª 88, winter 1989, pp. 42-60
• "L' integrazione degli immigrati a Barcellona". Studi Emigrazione / Etudes Migrations, nº 89, 1988, pp. 67-82.
• "Crisi della teoria sociolinguistica e studi sull' immigrazione in Catalogna", Annali dell' Istituto Universitario Orientale - Sezione Romanza , XXXIV, nº 1, 1992, pp. 543-559 (Atti del Convegno Internazionale "Ramon Lull, il lullismo internazionale e l' Italia", Napoli, 30 marzo -1 aprile 1989).

• 'Federalismo y su vuelta atrás: ¿Por qué se disintegró Yugoslavia?, in Alfons Cuco', Joan Romero and Joaquín Farinós (eds) La organización territorial del Estado, València: Universitat de València, 2002
• 'Nacionalisme, fronteres i violència', Diàlegs. Revista d'estudis polítics i socials,  Vol. 3, Núm.10, 2000, pp. 7-44 [ISSN: 1138-9850]
•  'Ernest Gellner i el multiculturalisme', L'Espill, no. 7, 2001, pp. 37-63
• 'Ernest Gellner como crítico del pensamiento social', Pasajes, no. 2, 2000, pp. 85-94 [ISSN 1575-2259]
•  'Les relacions anglosèrbies entre les dues guerres mundials', L'Avenç, n. 226, Juny 1998, pp. 6-12.
• 'Actitus politiques dels joves italians. Algunes hipòtesis sobre les arrels de la violencia poltica i les seves consequencies (1977-1987)', Estudi General, nº 7, 1988, pp. 67-71.
• 'Qüestions regionals i qüestions nacionals a Itàlia: interpretacions', Revista de Catalunya, nº 21, juliol-agost 1988, pp. 63-75
• 'La sociologia anglosaxona devant el fenomen etnonacionalitari', Revista Europa de les Nacions, n. 3

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