Primary and Secondary Schools, Budapest, Paris, Los Angeles. (U.S. Citizen Since 1952)
CURRICULUM VITAE -- Martin O. Heisler (March 2015)
Education:
Primary and secondary schools, Budapest, Paris, Los Angeles. (U.S. citizen since 1952).
Higher education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1960; M.A. 1962; Ph.D., 1969, all in Political Science. Fields: International Relations; Comparative Politics; Political Theory; Public Administration.
Dissertation: Political Community and Its Formation in the Low Countries (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1970).
Professional Positions:
Professor Emeritus, Department of Government and Politics University of Maryland, College Park since 2006. (Lecturer to Assistant Professor to Associate Professor to Full Professor, 1966-2005). Sometime Affiliate Professor in Sociology and the Graduate Program in French Cultural Studies. Faculty Associate: Harrison Program for the Future Global Agenda; Center for International Development and Conflict Management; Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, Fall 2005, Spring 2007.
Visiting Professor of International Relations, Institut d'Études Politiques ("Sciences-Po") Paris, France, 2001.
Visiting Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, 1992.
Senior International Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France, 1991.
Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Institute of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1981-83.
Visiting Fulbright Professor, Aarhus University, 1978-79.
Visiting (Full) Professor of Political Science, University of Kentucky, 1967.
Instructor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, 1964-66.
Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities:
Current Projects (selected):
Review essay (pending at journal): “Ethical Behavior in the Holocaust: What Room for Ambiguity?”
Book in progress: Migration, Governance and World Politics;
Article in progress: "Cognition, Philology, and Ockham's Electronic Razor: the domestic and international ramifications of new modes of thinking and communicating."
Books and Edited Volumes:
The Politics of History in Comparative Perspective. Vol. 617 of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (May 2008). Special editor and contributor of two articles noted below.
The Nordic Region: Changing Perspectives in International Relations, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 512 (Nov. 1990). Special Editor and contributor of article noted below.
Coauthor, Global Studies: Western Europe, 1st through 6th editions. Ed. H. J. Warmenhoven (Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw Hill, 1989-99).
From Foreign Workers to Settlers? Transnational Migration and the Emergence of New Minorities, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 485 (May 1986). Senior coeditor and contributor of articles noted below.
International Energy Policy, coeditor (with R. M. Lawrence), (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1980). Recipient of the Aaron Wildavsky Book Award of the Policy Studies. Organization.
Ethnic Conflict in the World Today, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 433 (Sep. 1977). Special editor, contributor of articles noted below.
Politics in Europe: Structures and Processes in Some Postindustrial Democracies (New York: David McKay, 1974). Principal author and editor.
Monographs and Research Reports:
Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in the Modern West, Working Paper No.1. College Park: Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, 1988, 66pp.
Government as Paymaster: Primary Income Dependence on Government through Employment and Transfer Payments in the Nordic Countries (with D. S. Schwerin). Århus, Denmark: Institute of Political Science, Aarhus University, 1982, 52pp.
Domesticating Defense Expenditures. Århus, Denmark: Institute of Political Science, Aarhus University, 1982.
If Women Are a Group, What Kind of Group Are They? Århus, Denmark: Institute of Political Science, Aarhus University, 1981.
Government: What is Growing and How Do We Know? Studies in Public Policy No. 89 (with B. G. Peters). Glasgow: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, 1981.
Social Conflict in Global Perspective, Occasional Paper No. 15. College Park: World Order Studies Program, University of Maryland, 1981, 51pp.
Authority and Strains in the Political Economy of the Welfare State. Århus, Denmark: Institute of Political Science, Aarhus University, 1979, 44pp.
Report on contemporary Belgian politics, prepared under contract for the U.S. Department of State, INR-XR, 1978.
Implications of Scarcity for the Management of Group Conflict in Multicultural Societies, Studies in Public Policy, No. 20 (with B. G. Peters). Glasgow: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom), 1978.
Dialogue in Comparative Federalism (contributor), ed. E. Katz and B. R. Schuster. Philadelphia: Center for the Study of Federalism, Temple University, 1978.
A Political Sociology Perspective on Divided Nations and Political Partition, Working Paper No. 43. Pittsburgh: University Center of International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1975.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
"Our Stories, Our Selves: Identities and the Dialogics of Narrative," in Narrating Peoplehood amidst Diversity: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives, ed. Michael Böss. (Århus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2011): 61-100.
“Introduction: The Political Currency of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 617 (May 2008): 14-24.
“Challenged Histories and Collective Self-Concepts: Politics in History, Memory, and Time,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 617 (May 2008): 199-211.
“Academic Freedom and the Freedom of Academics: Toward a Transnational Civil Society Move,” International Studies Perspectives 8, 4 (November 2007): 347-357.
Symposium: “Changing Citizenship Theory and Practice,” Guest Editor and contributor of an article: “Introduction—Changing Citizenship Theory and Practice: Comparative Perspectives in a Democratic Framework,” PS: Politics and Political Science 38, No. 4 (October 2005): 667-70.
“Changing Theory and Practice in International Relations,” in K. Khudoley and D. Lanko, eds., Borders, Identities and Nationalism: Understanding the Relationship (St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg University Press, 2004).
“The Uses and Limitations of Perspective,” in Light from the Ashes, ed. Peter Suedfeld (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
“Now and Then, Here and There: Transnational Migration and Identities, Borders, and Orders,” in Identities, Borders, Orders, ed. M. Albert, D. Jacobson and Y. Lapid (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001).
“International Security Structures and the Baltic Region: The Implications of Alternative World-Views” (with G. H. Quester), in Stability and Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Russian, Nordic and European Aspects, ed. O. F. Knudsen (London: Frank Cass,1999).
“Contextualizing Global Migration: Sketching the Socio-Political Landscape in Europe,” UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 3, 2 (1998-99): 557-593.
"Portugal and Migration in Global and European Perspectives," in Metropolis International Workshop Proceedings, Fundaçao Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (Lisbon: by the Foundation, 1998).
“Cross-boundary Population Movements and Security in Korea: Gradual Rapprochement and Other Scenarios,” in Environmental Security in Northeast Asia, ed. M. Schreurs and D. Pirages. (Seoul, Korea: Yonsei University Press, 1998).
"Some Normative Caveats in the Pursuit of the Rights of Ethnic Minorities," Journal of Ethno-Development 4, 1 (July 1994):79-82.
"Migration and the link between social and societal security" (with Z. Layton-Henry), in Identity, Migration and the New Security Agenda in Europe, eds. Ole Wæver et al. (London: Pinter, 1993);
"Migration, International Relations and the New Europe: Theoretical Perspectives from Institutional Political Sociology," International Migration Review 26, 2 (Summer 1992): 596-622. (Reprinted in Theories of Migration, ed. R. Cohen, Edward Elgar, Ltd., 1996.)
"Citizenship -- Old, New and Changing: Inclusion, Exclusion and Limbo for Ethnic Groups and Migrants in the Modern Democratic State" (with B. S. Heisler), in Dominant National Cultures and Ethnic Identities, ed. J. Fijalkowski et al. (Berlin: Free University of Berlin, 1991), vol. I, pp. 91-128.
"Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in the Modern West," in Conflict and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies, ed. J. V. Montville (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books/D.C. Heath, 1990), chap. 2.
"Hyphenating Belgium: Changing State and Regime to Cope with Cultural Division," ibid., chap. 12.
“Introduction,” The Nordic Region: Changing Perspectives in International Relations, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 512 (Nov. 1990): 16-21.
"Transnational Migration and the Modern Democratic State: Familiar Problems in New Form or a New Problem?" (with Barbara Schmitter Heisler), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 485 (May 1986):12-22.
"Transnational Migration as a Small Window on the Diminished Autonomy of the Modern Democratic State," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 485 (May 1986):153-166. (Reprinted as lead selection in Politics of Migration, ed. R. Cohen and Z. Layton-Henry, Edward Elgar, Ltd., 1997.)
"Denmark's Quest for Security: Constraints and Opportunities Within the Alliance," in NATO's Northern Allies, ed. G. Flynn (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld; London: Croom Helm, 1985), ch. 2 (pp. 57-112).
"Scarcity and the Management of Political Conflict in Multicultural Polities" (with B. G. Peters), International Political Science Review 4, 3 (1983): 327-344.
"Thinking about Public Sector Growth: Conceptual, Operational, Theoretical and Policy Considerations," (with B. G. Peters), in Why Governments Grow: Measuring Public Sector Size, ed. Charles L. Taylor (Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1983).
"Area Studies and Cross-Areal Research, Teaching and Policy Advice," Journal of Area Studies (U.K.), 1, 1 (1980). (Lead article in the journal’s inaugural issue.)
"Corporate Pluralism Revisited: Where is the Theory?" Scandinavian Political Studies, 2 (New Series), 3 (1979): 277-297.
"Ethnic Division in Belgium," in Self Rule/Shared Rule, ed. Daniel J. Elazar (Ramat Gan, Israel: Turtledove Publishing, 1979).
"Comparing Social Policy Across Levels of Government, Countries and Time: Belgium and Sweden since 1870" (with B. G. Peters), in Comparing Public Policies: New Concepts and Methods, ed. D. E. Ashford (Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1978).
"Eurocommunism and Innovation: A Western European Perspective," in Innovation in Communist Systems, eds. A. Gyorgy and J. A. Kuhlman (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1978).
"Toward a Multidimensional Framework for the Analysis of Social Policy" (with B. G. Peters), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 434 (Nov. 1977): 58-70.
"Ethnic Conflict in the World Today: An Introduction," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 433 (Sep. 1977): 1-5.
"Managing Ethnic Conflict in Belgium," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 433 (Sep. 1977): 32-46.
Short Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews (selected):
Review: Berger, Ronald J., The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory –Beyond Sociology, at http://historicaldialogues.org/2015/01/07/book-review-the-holocaust-religion-and-the-politics-of-collective-memory-beyond-sociology/, January 2015.
Review: Keymeulen, Sarah, and Jo Tollebeek, Henri Pirenne, historian: A life in pictures. in Medievally Speaking, at http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2014/01/keymeulen-and-tollebeek-henri-pirenne.html, 22 January 2014.
Review essay: Bergerson, Andrew Stuart, K. Scott Baker, Clancy Martin, Steve Ostovich, The Happy Burden of History: From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood, in http://www.historicaljusticeandmemorynetwork.net, 13 June 2012.
Reviews: Sam Kaplan, The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey, and Gyanendra Pandey, Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories, in Perspectives on Politics 5, 3 (Sept. 2007): 663-65.
Review: Rajen Harshé, Twentieth Century Imperialism, in Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism 32, 1 (2004).
Reviews: Jill Krause and Neil Renwick, eds., Identities in International Relations, and Jay Rothman, Resolving Identity-Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations, and Communities, in American Political Science Review 94, 1(March 2000): 242-243.
Review: Jeffrey G. Reitz, Warmth of the Welcome: The Social Causes of Economic Success for Immigrants in Different Nations and Cities, in International Migration Review 34, 3 (Fall 2000): 982-984.
Review: Antje Wiener, `European’ Citizenship Practice, in Canadian Journal of Political Science 32, 3 (1999).
Review essay: David Jacobson, Rights Across Borders and Jeff Spinner, The Boundaries of Citizenship, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1997).
Review: Marco Martiniello, ed., Migration, Citizenship and Ethno-National Identities in the European Union, in Nationalism and Ethnopolitics (1996).
Review: Marina Boudart, Michel Boudart, and René Bryssinck, eds., Modern Belgium, in American Association for Netherlandic Studies Newsletter 37 (1992): 10-11.
Review essay: Ronaldo Munck, The Difficult Dialogue: Marxism and Nationalism, in Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism 18, 1-2 (1991): 192-194.
Review: Peter T. Manicas, War and Democracy, in American Political Science Review 85, 3 (1991): 1078-79.
Review: Eric Einhorn and John Logue, Modern Welfare States: Politics and Policies in Social Democratic Scandinavia, in Perspectives on Political Science (1990): 177-78.
Reviews: Frank Bealey, Democracy in the Contemporary State and Gregory A. Fossedal, The Democratic Imperative, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 508 (March 1990): 185-186.
Review: Muhammad Anwar, Race and Politics: Ethnic Minorities and the British Political System, in International Migration Review 21, 4 (1987): 1558-59.
Short article: "Belgium," in 1985 Yearbook on International Communist Affairs, ed. Richard F. Staar (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1985): 454-457.
Review: Gregory Flynn and Hans Rattinger, eds., The Public and Atlantic Defense, in American Political Science Review 79, 4 (1985): 1234-1235.
Short article: "Belgium," in 1984 Yearbook on International Communist Affairs, ed. Richard F. Staar (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1984): 446-448.
Review: W. J. Mommsen, ed., The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany (in Danish), Nyt fra Historien (Denmark) 31, 2 (1982): 83-84.
Review: Walter Laqueur, A Continent Astray: Europe, 1970-1978, in American Political Science Review (1980): 879-880.
Review essay: Ronald Inglehart, The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles among Western Publics, in Journal of Political and Military Sociology 7, 1 (1979): 151-154.
Review essay: Robert Jackman, Politics and Social Equality, in Journal of Politics (1977): 220-222.
Foreword to Cynthia H. Enloe, The Politics of Pollution in Comparative Perspective (New York: David McKay, 1975).
Review essay: Kenneth McRae (ed.), Consociational Democracy, in Western Political Quarterly (1975):485-488.
Article: "Fragmentary Data from a Survey of the Academic Marketplace in Political Science" (with M. W. McKinney), PS: Political Science & Politics 4, 3 (1971): 401-411.
Review: Karl Kaiser, German Foreign Policy in Transition, in American Political Science Review 64, 1 (1970): 246-248.
Article: "The Academic Marketplace in Political Science for the Next Decade," PS: Political Science & Politics 3, 3 (1970): 372-381.
Professional Papers and Formal Conference Presentations, 2000 - present (selected): (More than 100 papers were presented at scholarly conferences in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East between 1968 and 1999.)