PUBLICATIONS

Books

Social Change in a Peripheral Society: The Creation of a Balkan Colony (New York: Academic Press, 1976). [Romanian translation, Bucharest: Corint, 2002.]
Social Change in the Twentieth Century (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977). [Italian translation, Naples: Liguori Editore, l985. Korean translation, Seoul, 1984.]
Translator (with Holley Coulter Chirot) of Henri H. Stahl, Traditional Romanian Village Communities: The Transition from the Communal to the Capitalist Mode of Production in the Danube Region (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. 2nd, paperback edition, 2008).
Social Change in the Modern Era (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986). [Korean translation, Seoul, 1987; Chinese translation, Taipei: Chu Liu Books, 1991.]---Editor, The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economic and Political Change from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989 – 2nd, paperback edition, 1991). [Romanian translation, Bucharest: Corint, 2004.]
Editor, The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left: The Revolutions of 1989 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991).
Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age (New York: The Free Press, 1994 – 2nd, paperback edition, Princeton University Press, 1996). [Polish translation, Warsaw: Michal Urbanski, 1997.]
How Societies Change (Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1994). [Romanian translation, Bucharest: Athena, 1996. Italian translation, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010.]
Editor (with Anthony Reid), Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997)
Editor (with Martin Seligman), Ethnopolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press, 2001)
Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley, Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006). [Chinese translation, Hong Kong: New Century Publishing, 2007. Swedish translation, Goteborg: Daidalos, 2008. Finnish translation, Helsinki: Like, 2008.] Paperback 2nd edition (Princeton University Press, 2010)
Contentious Identities: Ethnic, Religious and Nationalist Conflicts in Today’s World (New York: Routledge, 2011)
How Societies Change. [Completely new and revised 2nd edition.] (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2011)

Articles and Book Chapters

"Urban and rural economies in the Western Sudan; Birni N'Konni and its hinterland," Cahiers d'etudes africaines 8:4 (1968), 549-565.
"The social order," in Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World. R. Morris and G. Irwin, eds., (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), pp. 849-883.
"A review of Romanian peasant studies," Peasant Studies Newsletter 1:1 (1972), 3-8.
"Sociology in Romania," Social Forces 51:1 (1972), 99-l02.
"A new analysis of the Romanian middle ages (l300-l800) in recent Romanian scholarship," Southeastern Europe, 1:1 (1974), 80-88.
"The growth of the market and servile labor systems in agriculture," Journal of Social History 8 (Winter, 1975), 67-80.
(with Charles Ragin) "The market, tradition and peasant rebellion: the case of Romania in l907," American Sociological Review 40:4 (1975), 428-444.
"The Romanian communal village: an alternative to the Zadruga," in The Zadruga: The Extended Family of the Balkans. Essays by Philip E. Mosely and Essays in His Honor. R.F. Byrnes, ed., (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1975), pp.l39-l59.
"Thematic controversies and new developments in the use of historical materials by sociologists," Social Forces 55:2 (1975), 232-24l.
"Neoliberal and social democratic theories of development: the Zeletin-Voinea debate concerning Romania's prospects in the l920s and its contemporary importance," in Social Change in Romania, l860-l940. A Debate on Development in a European Nation. K. Jowitt, ed., (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, 1978), pp. 3l-52.
"A Romanian prelude to contemporary debates about development," Review 2:1 (1978), 1l5-l23.
"Social change in Communist Romania," Social Forces 57:2 (1978), 457-499.
"Corporatism, socialism, and development in Romania," Amsterdam Sociologisch tijdschrift 5:3 (1978), 389-409.
"Henri H. Stahl," in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Biographical Supplement, (New York: The Free Press, 1979), pp. 436-437.
"The corporatist model and socialism: notes on Romanian development," Theory and Society 9 (1980), 363-38l.
"Changing fashions in the study of social causes of economic and political change," in The State of Sociology. J. S. Short, ed., (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981), pp. 259-282.
(with Thomas Hall) "World-system theory," in Annual Review of Sociology. Volume 8, Ralph Turner, ed., (Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 1982), pp. 8l-l06.
"Historical sociology," Historical Methods 16:3 (1983), l2l-l23.
(with Karen Barkey) "States in search of legitimacy: was there nationalism in the Balkans of the early nineteenth century?" International Journal of Comparative Sociology 24:l-2 (1983), 30-46. Reprinted in Current Issues and Research in Macro-sociology. G. Lenski, ed., (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984), pp.30-46.
"The social and historical landscape of Marc Bloch," in Vision and Method in Historical Sociology. T. Skocpol, ed., (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 22-46. Reprinted in Korean in Hyonsang Kwa Insik [Seoul] 33 (1985), 118-143.
Charles Ragin and Daniel Chirot, "Immanuel Wallerstein's world system: sociology and politics as history," in Vision and Method in Historical Sociology. T. Skocpol, ed., (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 276-312.
"Social Change," in The Social Science Encyclopedia. A. & J. Kuper, eds., (Leiden: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), pp.760-763.
"The Rise of the West," American Sociological Review 50:2 (1985), 181-195. Reprinted in Chinese in Journal of Sunology [Kaohsiung] 1:1 (1985), 109-123. Reprinted in Polish in Adam Czarnoty and Andrzeja Zybertowicza, eds., Interpretacje Wielkiej Transformacji (Warsaw, 1988), pp. 23-59.
"Ideology and Legitimacy in Eastern Europe," States and Social Structures Newsletter of the SSRC 4 (1987), 1-4.
"Romania: Ceausescu's Last Folly," Dissent (Summer, 1988), 271-275.
"Ideology, Reality, and Competing Models of Development in Eastern Europe Between the Two World Wars," Eastern European Politics and Societies 3:3 (1989), 378-411.
(with Gi-wook Shin), "The Future of World System Theory" [in Korean], The Korean Review of Sociology Volume 6 (1990), 172-196.
"What Happened in Eastern Europe in 1989?" in Chirot, ed., The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left: The Revolutions of 1989. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991), pp. 3-32. Reprinted in: Kyu-taik Kim, ed., The Future of Socialism (Seoul: Ilchogak, 1990), 9-36; Praxis International 10:3-4 (1991), 278-305; J. Wasserstrom and E. Perry, eds., Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (Boulder: Westview, 1992 and 1994 {2nd edition}), 215-243 and 218-245; J.A. Goldstone, ed., Revolutions (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1994), 165-180; V. Tismaneanu, ed., The Revolutions of 1989 (London: Routledge), 19-50; Romanian translation of V. Tismaneanu, Revolutiile din 1989 (Bucharest: Polirom, 1999), pp. 27-61.
"After Socialism, What?" Contention 1:1 (Fall, 1991), 29-49. Reprinted in Lee In-ho, ed., Perestroika or History's Turning Point (Seoul: Seoul Press, 1991), pp. 203-239 [longer version]; in Nikki Keddie, ed., Debating Revolutions (New York: N.Y.U. Press, 1995).
"Socialism or Liberalism? Reply to Michael Mann," an answer to his criticisms of the above article, Contention 1:2 (Winter, 1992), 193-198.
"Romania," in Joel Krieger, ed., The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 797-798. Second edition (2001), pp. 739-740.
"American Social Sciences and Eastern European Studies," in J. Lampe and P. Smith, eds., East European Studies in the United States: Making its Own Transition after 1989 (Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1993), pp. 15-21.
Liah Greenfeld and Daniel Chirot, "Nationalism and Aggression," Theory and Society 9 (1994), 79-130.
"Liberty or Prelude to New Disasters? The Prospects for Post-Revolutionary Central and Eastern Europe," in John Moore, ed., Legacies of the Collapse of Marxism (Fairfax, VA:, George Mason University Press, 1994), pp. 199-227.
"Outsiders and Insiders: Entrepreneurial minorities and conflicting ethnic identities in the modern transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe," Items (S.S.R.C.) 48:4 (December 1994), 90-94.
"National Liberation and Nationalist Nightmares: The Consequences of the End of the Empires in the Twentieth Century," in Beverly Crawford, ed., Markets, States, and Democracy: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformation (Boulder: Westview, 1995), pp. 43-68.
"Modernism Without Liberalism: The Ideological Roots of Modern Tyranny," and "Reply to Steven Lukes and Robert Bellah," an answer to their criticisms of this article, Contention 5: 1 (Fall, 1995), 141-166, 179-182.
"Introduction," in Stephen Hanson and Willfried Spohn (eds.), Can Europe Work: Germany and the Reconstruction of Post-Communist Europe (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), pp. 3-12.
"Herder’s Multicultural Theory of Nationalism and its Consequences,” East European Politics and Societies 10:1(Winter, 1996), 1-15.
“Why East Central Europe is Not Quite Ready for Peron, but May Be One Day,” East European Politics and Societies 10:3 (Fall 1996), 536-540.
“Conflicting Identities and the Dangers of Communalism,” in Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid (eds.) Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997), pp. 3-32.
“Who Influenced Whom? Xenophobic Nationalism in Germany and Romania,” in Roland Schönfeld, ed., Deutschland und Südosteuropa – Aspekte de Beziehungen im Zwangzigsten Jahrhundert. Südosteuropa-Studie 58 (Munich: Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, 1997), pp. 37-57.
“Is Civil Society Enough? Comparing Romania and the American South,” in Robert Hefner, ed., Democratic Civility: The History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 1998), pp. 175-202.
“The Lessons of 1989: Comments on Janos Kis,” East European Politics and Societies 12:2 (Spring 1998), 384-389.
“Hitler,” “Mussolini,” “Stalin,” “Sukarno,” and “Tyranny”: articles in Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, edited by Jack Goldstone, (Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1998), pp. 221-222, 360-361, 462-463, 468-469, 487-488.
“Who is Western, Who is Not, and Who Cares?” East European Politics and Societies 13:2 (Spring 1999), 244-248.
“Why must there be a last cycle? The Prognosis for the World Capitalist System and a prescription for its diagnosis,” in Georgi Derlugian and Scott Greer, eds., Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000), pp. 69-83.
“How Much Does the Past Count? Interpreting the Romanian Transition’s Political Successes and Economic Failures,” in Werner Baer and Joseph Love, eds., Liberalization and Its Consequences (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000), pp. 103-124.
“Introduction” in Chirot and Seligman), eds., Ethnopolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press, 2001), pp. 3-26.
“A Clash of Civilizations or of Paradigms? Theorizing Progess and Social Change,” International Sociology 16:3 (September 2001), 343-362.
“World Systems Theory,” in Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 2001), 24: 16609-16613.
“Osteuropa zwischen Kultur und Modernisierung,” Transit (Vienna), 21 (Summer 2001), 21-41.
“Visszateres a valosaghoz,” 2000 Irodalmi Es Tarsadalmi Havi Lap (Budapest), (October 2001), 24-33.
“Ethnopolitical Warfare and Massacres: Is There Progress?” in C. Leigh Anderson and Janet W. Looney, Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public Policy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002), pp. 219-238.
(with Jennifer Edwards) “Making Sense of the Senseless: Understanding Genocide,” Contexts 2:2 (Spring, 2003), 12-19.
“What Provokes Violent Ethnic Conflict? One African and Two Balkan Cases,” in Zoltan Barany and Robert Moser, eds., Ethnic Conflict in Post-Communist Societies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), pp. 140-165.
Modernization Theory, Ideology, and Economic Success: Putting Korea’s Development in Comparative Perspective,” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, 5:1 (April, 2005), 51-75. Reprinted in Chang Yun-Shik and S.H. Lee, eds., Transformation in Twentieth Century Korea (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 267-288.
“Postcolonial African and Middle Eastern Tyrannies: Combining the Worst of the Classical and Modern Traditions,” in Toivo Koivukoski and David E. Tabachnick, eds., Confronting Tyranny (Lanham, MD and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), pp. 81-102.
“The Debacle in Côte d’Ivoire,” Journal of Democracy, 17:2 (April, 2006), 63-77.
“The Power of Imaginative Analogy: Communism, Faith, and Leadership,” in V. Tismaneanu, M.M. Howard, and R. Sil, eds., World Order After Communism (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006), pp. 269-274.
“Griztant i realybe, ” in Almantas Samalavicius, ed., Europos Kulturos Profiliai (Vilnius, Lithuania: Kulturos Barai, 2007), pp. 169-192.
“That Enlightenment Question Again,” Society 45:3 (May/June, 2008), 257-259.
“Returning to a Sane Foreign Policy,” Society 45:5 (September/October, 2008), 425-428.
“The Retribalization of the Modern World: How the Revival of Ancient Sentiments Leads to Persisting Nationalist and Ethnic Conflicts,” Ab Imperio 3/2008, 23-46.
“Traditional Methods of Avoiding Genocidal Mass Slaughter” in Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, (www.massviolence.org, enter “Chirot” in search box, 2008.
“Marxism iak traditzia i perspectiva,” [in Ukrainian alphabet] Ukraïna Moderna, 3: 14/2009, 29-33.
“Does Democracy Work in Deeply Divided Societies?” in Zoltan Barany and Robert Moser, eds., Is Democracy Exportable? (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 85-109.
“Is a Rational Solution Possible?” Society, 47:2 (March 2010), pp. 107-109.
“A Turning Point or Business as Usual?” in Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derlugian, eds., Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown,(New York: New York University Press, 2011), pp. 113-136.
“Europe’s Troubled World War II Memories: Are They That Different?” in Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider, eds., History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia: Divided Memories (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 269-285.
“Theories and Realities: What are the Causes of Backwardness?” in Peter Hanns Reill and Balazs Szelenyi, eds., Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2011), pp. 63-72.
“Searching for a Mythical Wholeness but Never Finding It,“ Society, 48:6 (November/December 2011), pp. 478-480.
“Dogmatism and Genocide,“ in Don Ambrose and Robert Sternberg, eds., How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 33-36.

Book Reviews

BEFORE 1997:
51 reviews in Social Forces, Southeastern Europe, International Interactions, London Times Literary Supplement, Sociology: Reviews of New Books, American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Sociology and Social Research, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, American Historical Review, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Journal of Social History, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, MAN, Journal of Asian Studies, Slavic Review, Journal of World History, American Political Science Review, Journal of Modern History, Revue Canadienne des Etudes sur le Nationalisme, German Politics and Society.

SINCE 1997:

--“The Agony of Revolutionary Historical Sociology,” a review of Social Revolutions in the Modern World by Theda Skocpol, Social Forces 75:3 (1997) 1121-1126.
--Stalinism and Nazism, I. Kershaw and M. Lewin, eds., American Journal of Sociology 104:3 (1999).923-925.
--The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, D. Landes, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 564 (1999) 229-230.
--Anatomy of Mistrust: U.S.-Soviet Relations During the Cold War, by D.W. Larson, Journal of Political Psychology 20:2 (1999) 405-408.
--Patriotism In the Lives of Individuals and Nations, D. Bar-Tal and E. Staub, eds., Journal of Political Psychology 20:2 (1999) 441-443.
--Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups, L. Lucassen, W. Willems, and A. Cottaar, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30:2 (1999) 306-308.
--The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World, B. Anderson, American Historical Review December (1999) 1651-1652.
--Russia and China on the Eve of a New Millennium, C. Linden and J. Prybyla, eds., Slavonica 5:2 (1999), 79-80.
--Uncertain Transitions: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World, M. Burawoy and K. Verdery, eds., Slavic Review 59:2 Summer (2000) 432-433.
--Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account, A. Kuper, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31:2 (2000) 248-250.
--“What was Communism All About?” a review of The Black Book of Communism by Stéphane Courtois et al., East European Politics and Societies 14:3 (2000) 665-675.
--The Holocaust in Romania, R. Ioanid, American Historical Review June (2001) 1086-1087.
--East Central Europe in the Modern World, A. Janos, Canadian-American Slavic Studies Review (2002), 241-242.
--Beyond State Crisis? M. Beissinger and C. Young, eds., American Journal of Sociology 109:2 September (2003) 515-518.
Curriculum and the Holocaust, M. Morris, Contemporary Psychology 48:6 December (2003) 728-730.
--Dreamworld and Catastrophe, S. Buck-Morss, Journal of Cold War Studies 6:2 Spring (2004) 84-86.
Human Well Being and the Natural Environment, P. Dasgupta, Contemporary Psychology 49:1 February (2004) 96-98.
--The Struggle for the Soul of a Nation, B. Abrams, East European Politics and Societies 19:2 (Spring 2005), 322-326.
--Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century, B. Valentino, Comparative Political Studies 38 June (2005), 578-580.
--“Can Grand Evolutionary Theory Be Revised?”, a review of
Human Institutions: A Theory of Societal Evolution, J.H. Turner, Contemporary Sociology 34:5 (2005) 470-472.
--Les fondements du nationalisme roumain, A. Roger, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 12:2 (2006) 293-296.
--The Politics of Small Things: Power and the Powerless in Dark Times, J. Goldfarb, American Journal of Sociology 112:4 (January 2007), 1244-1246.
--Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur, B. Kiernan, Comparative Politics and Society 41: 10 (October, 2008),1432-1435.
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa, T. Ranger, ed., A Journal of Church and State 50: 4 (2008), 724-726.
Democracy Denied, 1905-1915, C. Kurzman, Contemporary Sociology 38: 6 (2009), 556-557.
Peines de guerre, I. Delpa and M. Bessone, eds., Prosecuting Heads of State, E. Luz and C. Reiger, eds., Making Sense of Mass Atrocity, M. Osiel, Perspectives on Politics 8: 3 (2010), 968-969.
Violent Rejectionists, M. Juergensmeyer, Radical, Religious, and Violent, E. Berman, Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought, R. Euben and M.Q. Zaman, eds., Contemporary Sociology 40: 3 (2011), 274-279.
“Revisiting the Rise of the West.” Review of I. Wallerstein, The Modern World System II (new edition), Contemporary Sociology 41:1 (2012), pp. 12-15.
“Looking Into the Abyss.” Review of T. Snyder, Bloodlands. Perspectives on Politics 10:2 (2012), pp. 397-402.
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS (since 1987)
--Three year grant 1985-1988 given to ACLS and administered jointly by me and the ACLS to start the journal East European Politics and Societies - from Title VIII U.S. State Department funds
--Guest Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. for research on social and political change in Eastern Europe, 1987
--Henry M. Jackson Foundation Conference Grant, "Revolutions of 1989," Seattle, 1990
--John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, work on tyranny, 1991-1992
--Guest Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1992.
--University of Washington, Dean's Recognition Award, "For contributing to a high level of excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences," 1992
--United States Information Agency grant for study of the condition of social sciences in the Balkans, 1993
--SSRC/ACLS Conference Grant (with Anthony Reid of Australian National University) for "Minority Entrepreneurs and Modern Nationalism: East-Central Europe and Southeast Asia," San Diego, 1994
--With INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) in Northern Ireland, Conference Grant for “Causes of Ethnopolitical Warfare throughout the world,” Derry, Northern Ireland, 1998
--Grant from the Solomon Asch Institute at the University of Pennsylvania for the study of ethnic conflict, 2000
--Mellon Foundation Grant for a Sawyer Seminar on Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution (with Resat Kasaba), 2001-2004
--United States Institute of Peace grant for research on governance and conflict in Africa and the Arab Middle East, 2004-2005
--Visiting Senior Fellow, Foundation for Research in Economics and the Environment, summer 2006

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate: States and capitalism: introduction to political economy; Introductory sociology; Political sociology; Comparative sociology; Social theory; Economic and social development; Balkan societies; Eastern Europe since l948; War; Guerrilla war; American policy and the New International Economic Order; Social change; Introduction to the history of Eastern Europe; Conflict and politics; Genocide; Ethnic conflict and democracy, Terrorism; American foreign policy dilemmas: how to deal with tyrants; Ethnic, religious, and nationalist conflicts; Deeply divided societies; Collective violence: genocides.

Graduate: Social stratification; Classical social theory; Historical methods for sociologists; Worker and peasant movements of the twentieth century; Social change and the world system; Methods of comparative research in international studies; Political sociology; Contemporary change in Eastern Europe; Introduction to Russian and Eastern European studies; Comparative politics; The political economy of industrial societies; Nationalism; Ethnic conflict; Analysis of information in the formulation of American foreign policy.

PROFESSIONAL and CONSULTING ACTIVITIES (since 1987)

--Member, Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 1982-1988
--Member of the editorial board of the Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association, l983-1988
--Founder and Editor, East European Politics and Societies, 1986-1989; then Chair, editorial committee, 1989 - 1994; Member, 1994 - current
--Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1986-1988
--Reviewer, National Humanities Center applications, 1988 - 1993
--Chair, Russian and East European Studies Program and Director of the Russian and East European National Resource Center (U.S. Department of Education), University of Washington, 1988 - 1991
--Member, Joint Committee of the ACLS and the SSRC for Scholarly Cooperation with Taiwan, 1990
--Member, Academic Advisory Council of the East European Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 1990 - 1995
--Member, Selection Committee for the Slavic and East European Section of the Fulbright Exchange Program, 1990 - 1992; Chair, 1992
--Lecturer, U.S. Defense Department Overseas Schools (Germany), 1991
--Chair, External Program Review Committee, Department of Sociology, University of California at San Diego, 1991
--Reviewer, SSRC pre-dissertation training grant proposals, 1992 - 1994
--Member, Program Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 1993
--Member, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Selection Committee, Special Projects on Central and Eastern Europe, 1993 - 1995
--Member, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) panel for reviewing conference proposals, 1993
--Consultant for United States Information Agency (USIA) in the Balkans, 1993
--Member, Council for European Studies Committee on Research Planning Groups, 1993 - 1994
--Chair, External Program Review Committee, Austrian Studies Center, University of Minnesota, 1994
--Consultant for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Romania, 1995
--Member, Editorial Board of Problems of Post-Communism, 1996 – 2002
--Member, Editorial Board, The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (Washington: Congressional Quarterly), 1996 -1998
--Member, National Science Foundation (NSF) Panel for Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 1997, 1999, 2000
--Member, Program Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 1997
--Consultant for BBC documentary on modern tyranny, 1997
--Co-chair, Presidential Task Force of the American Psychological Association (APA) for the Study of the Causes and Ways of Resolving Ethnic Conflict, 1997-1998
--Chair, External Program Review Committee, Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA, 1998
--Acting Chair, International Studies Program, University of Washington, 1999
--Consultant for the Ford Foundation in Central Europe, 1999
--Consultant for CARE in Niger, 2000-2001 (planning civil society programs)
--Founder and co-director with Resat Kasaba, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, University of Washington, 2000-2004
--Member of the Library of Congress Fellowship Selection Committee, American Council of Learned Societies, 2001-2003
--Chair, International Studies Program and Director of the International Studies National Resource Center (U.S. Department of Education), University of Washington, 2001 - 2004
--Program Reviewer, Center for Western European Studies, Kalamazoo College, 2002
--Member CIES (Fulbright) grant committee for research on ethnic conflict, 2002
--Member Fulbright Senior Specialists Selection Committee, 2003-2007
--Evaluator of Senegal exchange program for CIEE, 2003
--Consultant for CARE in Côte d’Ivoire, 2003-2004, 2006 (political analysis, planning conflict mitigation programs)
--Member, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) panel for reviewing proposals in religion, philosophy, and science, 2005
--Member, Mellon Foundation panel for reviewing Sawyer Seminar grant proposals, 2005-2010
--Consultant for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, 2005 (author of report on political situation in the West Africa conflict zone from Guinea to Benin)
--Member, United States Institute of Peace panel for reviewing senior fellow grant proposals, 2005
--Chair, External Program Review Committee, Sociology Department, University of California at San Diego, 2006
--Member, External Program Review Committee, International Studies, University of Utah, 2008
--Member, Advisory Editorial Board, Society, 2008 --
--Member, External Program Review Committee, European Studies Program, UCLA, 2010
--Advisory Board, Legatum Institute (London), 2011 --