Edward Schatz

Associate Professor, Political Science

University of Toronto

 

 

TEACHING

Current Courses

POL302: European Politics (UTM)

 

Recent Courses

POL2505/449H: Qualitative Methods for Political Research (St. George)

ERE1194H: State and Society in Central Asia (St. George)

POL438: Islam and Politics in Comparative Perspective (UTM)

ERE1199H: Security, Sovereignty, and Great Power Politics in Central Asia (St. George)

 

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RESEARCH (full vita)

Book

Modern Clan Politics:  The Power of “Blood” in Kazakhstan and Beyond (Seattle and London:  University of Washington Press, 2004) (Amazon or UW Press)

 

Edited Book

Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009) (Amazon or University of Chicago Press)

                        Read about the book in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

 

 

 

Recent Articles

·         “The Soft Authoritarian ‘Tool Kit’: Agenda-Setting Power in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan,” Comparative Politics, January 2009

·         “Transnational Image Making and Soft Authoritarian Kazakhstan,” Slavic Review, special issue on Borat, spring 2008

·         Access by Accident: Legitimacy Claims and Democracy Promotion in Authoritarian Central Asia,” International Political Science Review 27(3), July 2006: 263–284

·         Anti-Americanism and America’s Role in Central Asia,” Working Paper, National Council for East European and Eurasian Studies, April 2008

·         Framing, Public Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism in Central Asia,” Working Paper, National Council for East European and Eurasian Studies, September 2008 [with Renan Levine]

 

Work in Progress / Under Review

The Distant Hegemon: The Politics of America’s Image in Central Asia, book in preparation

 

LINKS

Central Asia Program, a part of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies