Biographical Summary

Stuart J. Kaufman

Stuart J. Kaufman, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, joined the University of Delaware faculty in 2004. He taught at the University of Kentucky from 1990 to 2004. He specializes in ethnic conflict, international security affairs and international relations theory. The winner of a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship for 1998-99, Dr. Kaufman spent 1999 working as Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs on the U.S. National Security Council staff. His recent book, Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War (Cornell University Press, 2001), proposes a new theory to explain the causes of ethnic wars in the former USSR and Yugoslavia. On the basis of this work, Dr. Kaufman was named the winner of the 2003 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Kaufman is also the author of numerous other writings on international security affairs, ethnic conflict, Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, and international relations, which have been published in leading journals such as International Organization, International Security, World Politics, Review of International Studies, and numerous other outlets. Dr. Kaufman earned his B.A. (1983) from Harvard University, and his M.A. (1985) and Ph.D. (1991) from the University of Michigan.