Robert Hislope - Publications
Current Scholarly Activity:
"An Introduction to Comparative Politics: Challenges to the State," (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), coauthor Anthony Mughan.
Articles Published in Refereed, Scholarly Journals:
"Crime and Honor in a Weak State: Paramilitary Forces and Violence in Macedonia," Problems of Post-Communism, v.51, n.3, (May/June 2004): 18-26.
"Between a Bad Peace and a Good War: Insights and Lessons from the Almost-War in Macedonia," Ethnic and Racial Studies, v.26, n.1, (January 2003): 129-151.
"Organized Crime in a Disorganized State: How Corruption Contributed to Macedonia’s Mini-War," Problems of Post-Communism, v.49, n.3 (May/June 2002): 33-41.
"Can Evolutionary Theory Explain Nationalist Violence? Czechoslovak and Bosnian Illustrations," Nations and Nationalism, v.4, n.4, (October 1998): 463-482.
"The Generosity Moment: Ethnic Politics, Democratic Consolidation and the State in Yugoslavia (Croatia), South Africa, and Czechoslovakia," Democratization, v.5, n.1, (Spring 1998): 64-89.
"Ethnic Conflict and the ‘Generosity Moment’," Journal of Democracy, v.9, n.1, (January 1998): 140-153.
"Intra-Ethnic Conflict in Croatia and Serbia: Flanking and the Consequences for Democracy," East European Quarterly, v.30, n.4, (January 1997): 471-494.
Chapter Contributions to Edited Books:
"Corrupt Exchange in Divided Societies: The Invisible Politics of Stability in Macedonia," Mitchell Orenstein, Stephen Bloom, and Nicole Lindstrom, eds., Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions, (University of Pittsburgh Press, June 2008).
"From Expressive to Actionable Hatred: Ethnic Divisions and Riots in Macedonia," in J. Craig Jenkins and Esther E. Gottlieb, eds., Identity Conflicts: Can Violence be Regulated? (Transaction Publishers, Sept. 2007).
"Ethnic Riots in a Small Balkan Town: Understanding Hate and Violence in Macedonia," Derek Pardue, ed., Ruminations on Violence, (Long Grove, IL: Wavelength Press, June 2007).
"From Ontology to Analogy: Evolutionary Theories and the Explanation of Ethnic Politics," (pp.97-113), in Patrick James and David Goetze, eds., Evolutionary Theory and Ethnic Politics, (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2001).
"Skupstina," and "Alexander Obrenovic (1876-1903)," in Richard Frucht, ed., Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000).
Published Conference Papers:
"Shaking off the Shakedown State? Crime and Corruption in Post-Ohrid Macedonia," East European Studies News, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, (May/June 2003): 3-4, 11.
"The Calm Before the Storm? The Influence of Cross-Border Networks, Corruption, and Contraband on Macedonian Stability and Regional Security," published by the Open Society Institute, Skopje, Macedonia (Fondacija Institut otvoreno opstestvo-Makedonija, June 2002):
-- Albanian translation: Qetesi Para Stuhise? Ndikimi I Rrjeteve Nderkufitare, Korrupsionit Dhe Kontrabandes Mbi Stabilitetin e Maqedonise Dhe Sigurine Ne Rajon.
-- Macedonian translation: Zatishje Pred Bura? Vlijanieto na Prekugranichnite Mrezi Korupcijata i Kriymcharenjeto vrz Stabilnosta na Makedonija i vrz Bezbednosta vo Regionot.
* The essay above also published in a CD-ROM format by the Ministry of Interior, Republic of Macedonia, White Book: Terrorism of the So-Called NLA, (2003).
Review Articles:
The New Macedonian Question, ed., James Pettifer, (London: Palgrave, 2001). Reviewed in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, v.4, nos.2-3-4, (2006).
"The Rational Ethnic Voter," The Review of Politics, v.67, n3, (Summer 2005): 578-580. Book review of Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India, by Kanchan Chandra, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
The New Macedonian Question book review above posted by Reality Macedonia, (April8, 2004), < http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/ > .
Divide and Fall? Bosnia in the Annals of Partition, by Radha Kumar, (London: Verso, 1997). Reviewed in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, v.35, n.4, (Winter 2001): 485-7.
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Tim Judah, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997); Croatia: A Nation Forged in War, by Marcus Tanner, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997). Reviewed in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, v.34, n.2 (Summer 2000): 241-3.
Newspaper, Magazine, Op-Ed Articles:
"Protresuvanje na Rastresenata Drzava," Utrinski Vesnik, n.1117, (March 13, 2003). Macedonian newspaper reprint of "Shaking Off the Shakedown State?"
"Zatishje Pred Bura?" Manifest, n.12, (February 1, 2003): 16-19. Macedonian magazine reprint of "Calm Before the Storm?"
"Macedonia and Its Two Truths," Hilltopics, (Summer 2001), pp.16-17. [Bradley University alumni magazine].
"Two Sides to Conflict in Macedonia," Times Union [newspaper editorial], (March 29, 2001), p.A11.