La conférence sera donnée en anglais.

Roger Petersen  (MIT Political Science) holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. He has taught at MIT since 2001 and is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. Petersen focuses on within-state conflict and violence. He has written three books: Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2011).  The latter book was named the Winner of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies; Winner of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Marshall Shulman Book Prize for outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe; Winner of the International Studies Association ENMISA (Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association) Distinguished Book Award.  In collaboration with Austin Long and Jon Lindsay, he is currently working on a manuscript entitled “A Social Science Guide to the Iraq Conflict.”  He teaches courses on civil war, civil-military relations, and ethnic politics.