Dr. Stuart Kaufman
Professor
Political Science and International Relations
465 Smith Hall
Phone: (302) 831-1941
skaufman@udel.edu
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Stuart Kaufman,PhD (University of Michigan, 1991) joined the Department 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, Professor Kaufman spent 1999 working as Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs on the U.S. National Security Council staff. His first book, Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War, won the 2003 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
Recent Publications:
The Balance of Power in World History. Edited with Richard Little and William C. Wohlforth. London: Palgrave, 2007.
'Testing Balance of Power Theory in World History,' European Journal of International Relations 13:2 (2007): 155-185. With William C. Wohlforth, Richard Little, David Kang, Charles Jones, Victoria Hui, Arthur Eckstein, Daniel Deudney and William Brenner.
'Symbolic Politics or Rational Choice? Testing Theories of Extreme Ethnic Violence,' International Security 30:4 (2006): 45-86.
“Escaping the Symbolic Politics Trap: Reconciliation Initiatives and Conflict Resolution in Ethnic Wars,” Journal of Peace Research 43, no. 2 (March 2006), pp. 201-218.
