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| Association for the Study of Nationalities | |
|---|---|
| Name | Association for the Study of Nationalities |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Fields | Ethnicity, Nationalism, Regional Studies |
Association for the Study of Nationalities is an international scholarly association focused on the comparative study of nationalism, ethnic conflict, and state formation with a particular emphasis on Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Balkans. The association brings together scholars from universities, research institutes, and international organizations to examine issues relating to minority rights, self-determination, border disputes, and post-imperial transitions in cases such as Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, and Serbia. Founded during the late Cold War, the association has engaged with topics connected to the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and transformations in Central Europe and Caucasus societies.
The association was established in 1982 amid scholarly debates sparked by political developments in Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Solidarity, and the Baltic states; founding participants included academics affiliated with Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Chicago, and New York University. Early conferences addressed events such as the Prague Spring, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and the rise of nationalist movements in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. During the 1990s the association responded to the Breakup of Yugoslavia, the Bosnian War, the Kosovo War, and the emergence of new states like Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Montenegro. In the 2000s and 2010s its scope expanded to comparative work on Turkey, Iran, China, India, Israel, and postcolonial cases in Africa and Latin America through collaborations with scholars at Oxford University, Cambridge University, London School of Economics, Sciences Po, and the European University Institute.
The association's stated mission emphasizes advancing rigorous research on topics such as nationalism in Russia, identity politics in Ukraine, minority mobilization in Romania, and autonomy movements in Catalonia, with objectives to promote scholarly exchange among institutions like Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, McGill University, and University of Pennsylvania. It aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue linking research on cases such as Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia to broader debates involving scholars from King's College London, University College London, Free University of Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute. The association seeks to support early-career researchers from centers like University of Toronto, University of Michigan, Australian National University, and Seoul National University while engaging policymakers from United Nations, European Union, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and NATO.
Membership comprises academics, postgraduate researchers, and policy analysts affiliated with organizations including Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Chatham House, RAND Corporation, International Crisis Group, and the Wilson Center. Governance is typically vested in an elected executive board with officers drawn from institutions such as Princeton University, Columbia University, Brown University, Yale University, and Georgetown University, and advisory committees including representatives from American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Social Sciences, British Academy, and the Royal Historical Society. The association collaborates with regional centers like the Kennan Institute, the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, and national research councils in Poland, Romania, Georgia, and Armenia.
Core activities include annual meetings, regional workshops, doctoral consortia, and collaborative research projects that examine cases such as Belarus, Moldova, Transnistria, Bulgaria, and Greece. Training programs and seminars have been run in partnership with Institute for Advanced Study, Fulbright Program, American Councils for International Education, DAAD, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, while policy roundtables have engaged officials from U.S. Department of State, European Commission, Council of Europe, and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. The association also supports digital initiatives, data archiving collaborations with Harvard Dataverse, and joint curricula with Central European University and Johns Hopkins University.
The association sponsors peer-reviewed outlets and edited volumes authored by scholars associated with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Stanford University Press. Its publication program features comparative studies involving research on Sovietology, diasporas such as the Armenian diaspora and Jewish diaspora, and monographs about figures like Vladimir Putin, Lech Wałęsa, Slobodan Milošević, Franjo Tuđman, and Zoran Đinđić published by presses connected to Columbia University Press, Yale University Press, and Princeton University Press. Journals and edited series engage editorial boards drawn from University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, and European University Institute.
Annual conferences attract panels on topics including comparative nationalism, minority protection, and state transformation with contributions from scholars at Brown University, Duke University, University of Virginia, University of California, Los Angeles, and Michigan State University. Special events have addressed crises such as the Crimea annexation, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Arab Spring, and the Syrian Civil War featuring speakers from Yale University, Harvard Kennedy School, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Regional workshops and joint symposia have been hosted in cities including New York City, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, Budapest, Istanbul, Tbilisi, Yerevan, and Bucharest.
The association administers prizes and recognitions for outstanding scholarship, best dissertation awards, and lifetime achievement honors that have been given to scholars affiliated with Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Oxford University, and Cambridge University. Award committees often include members from American Political Science Association, European Consortium for Political Research, International Studies Association, British International Studies Association, and the Royal Historical Society, and recipients have gone on to receive distinctions such as the Holberg Prize, Leopold Lucas Prize, and appointments to national academies including the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, and the Royal Society of Canada.