Kristen P. Williams, Ph.D.

Current Research and Teaching

Professor Williams' current research project (with Joyce P. Kaufman) focuses on the question of women's activism before, during and after conflict, in examining the relationship between gender, national identity and war.  She is also working on an ethnic conflict textbook (with Neal G. Jesse) that applies the levels-of-analysis framework used in international relations to understand the causes and solutions to ethnic conflict.  In addition, her most recent co-authored book, Women, the Sate, and War: A Comparative Perspective on Citizenship and Nationalism, explores the intersection of gender, citizenship, and nationalism; marriage, intermarriage, and how states gender that relationship; and the ways in which women are used as symbols to reinforce or further nationalistic goals.

Publications

World Politics in a New Era, 4th edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) (with Steven L. Spiegel, Elizabeth Matthews, and Jennifer Taw).

Women, the State, and War: A Comparative Perspective on Citizenship and Nationalism (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007) (with Joyce P. Kaufman).

Identity and Institutions: Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005) (with Neal G. Jesse).

World Politics in a New Era, 3rd edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2004) (with Steven L. Spiegel, Jennifer Taw, and Fred Wehling).

"Internationalization of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: The Breakup of Yugoslavia," in Ethnic Conflict and International Politics: Explaining Diffusion and Escalation, eds., Steven E. Lobell and Philip Mauceri (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004):75-94.

"The Influence of the European Union," in The New Great Power Coalition, ed. Richard Rosecrance (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001): 159-179.

"Failures to Influence the Soviets: The Marshall Plan and Detente," in The New Great Power Coalition, ed. Richard Rosecrance (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001): 21-42 (detente section written by Deborah Larson and Alexei Shevchenko).

Despite Nationalist Conflicts: Theory and Practice for Maintaining World Peace (Westport, CT.: Praeger Publishers, 2001)

Journal Articles:
"Who Belongs? Women, Marriage and Citizenship: Gendered Nationalism and the Balkan Wars," International Feminist Journal of Politics 6, 3 (September 2004): 418-37 (with Joyce P. Kaufman).

Kristen P. Williams and Neal G. Jesse, "Resolving Nationalist Conflicts: Promoting Overlapping Identities and Pooling Sovereignty - The 1998 Northern Irish Peace Agreement," Political Psychology 22, 3 (September 2001): 571-99.

"Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: An International Relations Perspective," Current Contents, International Issues 40, 4 (August 1997): 61-76.

Book reviews:
Oliver P. Richmond's "Achieving Peace in the Post-Cold War World" Maintaining Order, Making Peace and Yael Danieli's edited volume, "Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills" Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 10, 2 (2004): 189-92.

Susan Hawthorne's "Wild Politics" (Spinifex Press: Australia, 2002), in Women's Studies International Forum 36, 3 (2003): 277-278.

Charlotte Hooper's, "Manly states: masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics" (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), in International Affairs 77, 4 (October 2001): 969-70.