ERIN K. JENNE, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
International Relations and European Studies Dept.
Central European University

MAILING ADDRESS:  Nádor u. 9 1051 Budapest Hungary (361) 327-3000 x2168 (W) (361) 327-3243 (fax) Jennee@ceu.hu

 

Erin K. Jenne is an associate professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department at Central European University in Budapest, where she teaches Masters and Ph.D. courses on qualitative and quantitative methods, ethnic conflict, international relations theory, nationalism and civil war, and international security. Jenne received her Ph.D. in 2000 from the Political Science Department at Stanford University, with concentrations in comparative politics, international relations, conflict processes, and East European politics. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a MacArthur Predoctoral Fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford; a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF) at Harvard University, and a two-year Carnegie Corporation Scholarship for a book project that compares the League of Nations regional security regime with that of postcommunist Europe. Her recent book, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press, 2007) is the winner of the 2007 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for making an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security by Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University, and was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. The book is based on her dissertation, which won the Seymour Martin Lipset Award for Best Comparativist Dissertation in 2001. She has recent or forthcoming articles in International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Regional and Federal Studies and Journal of Peace Research. She is on the editorial board of Foreign Policy Analysis and has served in several capacities in the Emigration, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies Association.

 

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press, 2007). Winner of the 2007 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award and Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine. The book explores the conditions under which groups radicalize their demands against their state governments. Using field research conducted on seven minority groups in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Serbia, the book demonstrates that, contrary to prevailing theories of ethnic conflict, minority leaders in Eastern Europe have played a relatively peripheral role in ethnic mobilization. The book also shows that minorities do not usually radicalize in response to fears of discrimination, but rather in response to perceptions of external patronage that increase the expected value of rebellion over that of inter-ethnic compromise. The book is based on her Ph.D. dissertation, which received the 2001 Seymour Martin Lipset Award for Best Comparativist Dissertation of the Year. 

 

 

 

Europe’s Long Struggle with Ethnic Conflict - From the League of Nations to the European Union (book project funded by the Carnegie Corporation). The book’s central research question is how to protect minority rights without encouraging minority rebellion. Can this best be accomplished through power-sharing arrangements, military intervention, ethnic partition, or external inducements? There are two periods in European history when minority protection became an explicit strategy for stabilizing the continent: the interwar and the postcommunist eras. These two historical periods offer a useful comparison for two reasons. First, many of the mechanisms used in interwar Europe - including ethnic partition, preventive diplomacy and territorial autonomy - are again on the table as possible solutions to today’s conflicts. By comparing the effectiveness of different tools used in the interwar period, this project promises to yield insights into the techniques that are most likely to achieve success for the contemporary era. Second, by comparing the relative success that each instrument had in the interwar versus the postcommunist period, this project effectively holds many regional and historical factors constant in determining the intervening impact that increased communications, capital flows, and political and economic integration have had on the success of each of these techniques in promoting peace in contemporary Europe.


COURSES

Europe’s Long Struggle with Ethnic Conflict

Qualitative Methods and Research Design

Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

The Study of International Relations

Nationalism and Civil Warfare

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

ARTICLES

• “How Ethnic Partition Perpetuates Conflict: The Consequences of De Facto Partition in Bosnia and Kosovo,” Regional and Federal Studies 18 (Special Issue): The Paradox of Federalism, forthcoming.

• “Separatism as a Bargaining Posture: The Role of Leverage in Group Claim-making,” (with Stephen M. Saideman and Will Lowe), Journal of Peace Research 44(5): 537-556, September 2007. (pdf file)

• “Dilemmas of Divorce: How Secessionist Identities Cut Both Ways,” (with Stephen M. Saideman and Beth K. Dougherty), Security Studies 14(4): 607-636, Summer 2005. (pdf file)

• “A Bargaining Theory of Minority Demands: Explaining the Dog that Didn’t Bite in 1990s Yugoslavia,” International Studies Quarterly 48(4): 729-754, December 2004. (pdf file)

• “The Impact of Group Fears and Outside Actors on Ethnic Party Demands on Ethnic Party Demands: Comparing Sudeten Germans in inter-war Czechoslovakia with the post-1989 Moravian movement,” Czech Sociological Review 7(1): 67-90, 1999.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “The International Relations of Ethnic Conflict,” (with Stephen M. Saideman) in Manus I. Midlarsky (ed.) Handbook of War Studies III, forthcoming.

• “National Self-Determination: A Deadly Mobilizing Device,” in Hurst Hannum and Eileen Babbit (eds.) Negotiating Self-Determination, Causes and Consequences ( Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), 7-36.

• “ Sri Lanka: A Fragmented State,” in Robert I. Rotberg (ed.) State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror ( Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003), 219-245.

• “The Roma of Central and Eastern Europe: Constructing a Stateless Nation,” in Jonathan Stein (ed.) The Politics of National Minority Participation in Post-Communist Europe: State-building, Democracy, and Ethnic Mobilization ( Armonck, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000), 189-212.