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Steven L. Burg was born on March 28, 1950, in New York City, the son of Frank and Sarah (Edelman) Burg.
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In 1970, Burg received a Bachelor of Arts from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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In 1973, Burg received a Master of Arts from Hunter College of the City University of New York.
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Burg received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1980.
(Steven L. Burg views Yugoslav politics since 1966 in term...)
Steven L. Burg views Yugoslav politics since 1966 in terms of the communist leadership's efforts to preserve political cohesion in the face of powerfully divisive domestic conflicts. He examines the bases of those conflicts, their suppression with the establishment of communist power, and their reemergence and escalation into crisis during the late 1960s and early 1970s - a period when the conflict between hostile nationalisms, reinforced by regional economic differences, directly challenged communist power.
https://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Cohesion-Socialist-Yugoslavia-Political/dp/0691641196/?tag=2022091-20
1978
(Provides a general framework for the study of modern poli...)
Provides a general framework for the study of modern political regimes democratic, authoritarian, totalitarian - and emphasizes the institutional structure within these regimes and their cultural and socio-economic foundations.
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Comparative-Politics-Political-Regimes/dp/0673520358/?tag=2022091-20
1991
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This book examines the historical, cultural and political dimensions of the crisis in Bosnia and the international efforts to resolve it.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U90LYOC/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(For more than forty years, Western policymakers defined c...)
For more than forty years, Western policymakers defined communism as the central threat to international peace and stability. They responded by confronting it with a counterbalancing threat of force, and pursuing a strategy of containment. With the collapse of communism, the challenge to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic community has changed. Soviet expansionism has been supplanted by powerful, internal forces arising out of the clash of competing ethnic nationalisms. This challenge, argues Steven L. Burg, cannot be met by force alone, or neutralized through a strategy of containment. It requires Western states to act decisively to influence the internal political development of the post-communist states themselves.
https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Nationalism-Democracy-Communist/dp/0814712703/?tag=2022091-20
1996
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Steven L. Burg was born on March 28, 1950, in New York City, the son of Frank and Sarah (Edelman) Burg.
In 1970, Burg received a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1973, he received a Master of Arts from Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1980.
From 1979 to 1980, Burg was a lecturer at Brandeis University. Then, he worked from 1980 to 1986 as an assistant professor at Brandeis University. In 1986, Steven was an associate professor of political science at College of Arts and Sciences, and then, from 1990 to 1992, he was appointed a professor of politics and dean.
Nowadays Burg is Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Brandeis University.
(Provides a general framework for the study of modern poli...)
1991(This book examines the historical, cultural and political...)
1994(For more than forty years, Western policymakers defined c...)
1996(Steven L. Burg views Yugoslav politics since 1966 in term...)
1978In his works Burg addresses the apparently perennial conflicts that emerge among the handful of distinct and often militant cultural groups (Serbs, Croatians, etc.) who constitute the Yugoslav population. He also acknowledged that the primary bonding agent for civil peace during those years was the determination and truly Yugoslav nationalism of Tito himself.
Burg also explores the issues of ethnicity and politics on a larger, comparative scale in War or Peace? Nationalism, Democracy, and American Foreign Policy in Post-Communist Europe. He explains that decades of communist rule promoted a forcible suppression of ethnic aggression, without erasing the ethnic hatred that served as its source. The demise of the communist rule provided an apparently unexpected outlet for the venom that had been seething under pressure for years. Some countries like Czechoslovakia and Ukraine managed to contain the potential for violence more successfully than others, but most of the formerly communist states of Europe that were home to multi-ethnic populations suffered significant degrees of unrest and havoc. Burg’s sharpest focus is on Yugoslavia, where he had conducted intensive, onsite research. It is also one of the European countries most damaged by ethnic conflict.
The issues of ethnic violence and nationalism have been the subject of numerous historical, political, and sociological studies in recent years. The element that makes Burg’s study unique, reported Robert Levgold in Foreign Affairs, is the author’s focus on the United States as a potential catalyst for a long-term solution.
Burg argues against partition or separation except as a last recourse and strongly promotes what he calls “preventive engagement,” which features, according to Kovrig, a focus on “individual human rights over group rights” and the encouragement of pluralism over separation. Rather than coercive enforcement, however, he calls for external international and national agencies (such as the United States) to employ “economic and diplomatic pressures and incentives to foster democracy, human rights, and a common interest on the part of ethnic minorities and majorities to collaborate” on various issues.
On June 18, 1972, Burg married Judith Anne Roswick. They have two children - Sarah Samantha and David Graham.