Keith A. Darden

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University who specializes in international relations, comparative politics, and the politics of Eurasia.  My book, Economic Liberalism and Its Rivals: The Formation of International Institutions among the Post-Soviet States, was published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press. My current research focuses on the sources of national loyalties and their effects on patterns of insurgent violence, secession, and voting.  My second book manuscript, “Resisting Occupation: Mass Literacy and the Creation of Durable National Loyalties,”  explores how the national identities initially introduced to a community through schools account for subsequent patterns of voting, secession, and armed resistance to foreign occupation. I am co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Problems in International Politics and have been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin, the Davis Center for Russian Studies, and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. In 2007 I was awarded the Lex Hixon ’63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences, an annual endowed award given to a single faculty member across all fields of the social sciences.  And, in 2008 I was awarded the Gregory M. Luebbert Prize for Best Article in Comparative Politics Published in 2006 or 2007 by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the article I co-authored with Anna Grzymala-Busse, “The Great Divide: Literacy, Nationalism, and the Communist Collapse.”

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