“When the Sky is the Limit: Busyness in Contemporary American Society,” Social Research, 2005

Preface to the Japanese Translation of Advanced Introduction to Nationalism, 2020

Preface to the Turkish Translation of Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, 2017

Preface to the Chinese Translation of Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, 2010

“Left, Right, and Nationalism,” H-Nationalism, November 2017

“To Combat Terrorism, Tackle Mental Illness,” New York Times, July 15, 2016

“On Raymond Aron, Passion, Identity, and Intricate Ways of Intellectual Filiation,” Journal of Classical Sociology, 2011

“The Roots of Chinese/Japanese Rivalry,” Project Syndicate, September 24, 2012

“Nationalism and Terrorism”, Project Syndicate, September 10, 2012

“Nationalism,” Encyclopedia of Globalization, 2011

“Living History,” Bostonia,  Summer 1994

Selected Recent Articles

2021    “Nationalism and Protest,” The SAIS Review of International Affairs, 40:2, pp. 5–15.

2020    “Social Science,” Encyclopedia Britannica

2019    “Nationalism’s Dividends,” American Affairs, 3:2, pp. 103-116.

2018  “The World Nationalism Made,” American Affairs, 2:4, pp. 145-159.

“Reflections on Durkheim in Hong Kong,” Dogma : Édition Printemps-Été.

“Revolutions,” The Sage Handbook of Political Sociology, ch. 38, pp. 685-698.

“Approaching Human Nature – and Needs – Empirically,” Society, 54(6); https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-017-0199-5

“The Life of the Mind of Hannah Arendt,” Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt (in Anthem Companions to Sociology), London: Anthem Press, pp. 129-154.

2016    “Back to 1984: The Role of American Universities in Dismantling Liberal Democracy,” Society, 53(4), 368-374; DOI 10.1007/s12115-016-0030-8

“Addressing Public Justification as an Empirical Phenomenon: A Caveat,” Contemporary Politics 22(2), 2016.

2015    “In Defense of Sociological Mentalism,” The European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2:1 (Fall 2015), pp. 76-87.

“Using the Holocaust,” Library of Social Science, February.  

2014    “Science as a Measure of Nations’ IQ,” Actes of Rencontres economiques d’Aix-en-Provence, 2014

“Computers vs. Humanity: Do We Compete?” (with Mark Simes), Ubiquity: A Publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),  Ubiquity Symposium on Singularity (Espen Andersen, ed.), Volume 2014, Number November (2014), Pages 1-7.

“Edward Shils on Ethnicity and Nationalism,” Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, Wiley/Blackwell (John Stone, ed.)

2012   “The Roots of Chinese/Japanese Rivalry,” Project Syndicate, September 24

“Nationalism and Terrorism”, Project Syndicate, September 10

“E pluribus unum: L’emergence d’un mal-etre moderne et des mots pour le dire,” in P. Goetschel, C. Granger, N. Richard & S. Venayre (eds.), L’Ennui. Histoire d’un état d’âme (XIXe-XXe siècle), Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne.

“American Universities and the Stagnation of Knowledge,” in Greenfeld (ed.), The Ideals of Joseph Ben-David: The Scientist’s Role and Centers of Learning Revisited, Transaction Publishers.

2011    “The Reality of American Multiculturalism: American Nationalism at Work,” Alain-G. Gagnon, Lecours, A., and Nootens, G. (eds.), Contemporary Majority Nationalism, Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, pp. 181-196.

“National Leadership in Science and Technology,” SAGE/National Science Foundation Leadership in Science and Technology.

“Globalization of Nationalism and the Future of the Nation-State,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Winter 2011.

“On Raymond Aron, Passion, Identity, and Intricate Ways of Intellectual Filiation,” Journal of Classical Sociology, Vol. 11:2 (May 2011), pp. 123-138.

“Nationalism,” Encyclopedia of Globalization, Vol. III, pp. 1498-1502.

2010    “Nationalism as the Cultural Foundation of Modern Experience” (with Eric Malczewski), The Handbook of Cultural Sociology, NY: Routledge, pp. 526-534.

“The Formation of Ethnic and National Identities” (with Nicholas Prevelakis), The International Studies Encyclopedia, 4: 2516-2531, Wiley-Blackwell.

New Preface for the Chinese Translation of Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, Shanghai: People’s Press, pp. v-x.

2009    “Politics as a Cultural Phenomenon” (with Eric Malczewski), in J. Craig Jenkins & Kevin T. Leicht, eds., The Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective, Springer, pp. 407-422.

“The Burden of Our Time,” Newsletter of the ASA Mental Health Section, December.

Review of Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling (eds.), Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 1850, Journal of the History of Medicine and Related Sciences.

2008    “The Alternatives: Other Institutional & Procedural Tools for Conflict Management (The Case of the USA)”, pp. 171 – 186 in Thomas Fleiner (ed.), Federalism: A Tool for Conflict Management in Multicultural Societies with Regard to the Conflicts in the Near East, Zurich: Lit Verlag.

“Capitalism,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford University Press, pp. 24-29.

“National Identity,” (with Jonathan Eastwood), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, chapter 11, pp. 256 – 274.

“The Class Nature of Nationalism, 1770-1870,” (with Jonathan Eastwood), Guntram Herb and D.H. Kaplan (eds.), volume 1, chapter 1, Nations and Nationalism in Global Perspective: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Development, and Contemporary Transition, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio

“Globalization of Nationalism,” The Future of National Identity, Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 93—109.

2007    “La realite du multiculturalisme etats-unien: le nationalisme etats-unien a l’oeuvre,” ch. 7 (pp. 271-290) in Alain-G. Gagnon, Andre Lecours et Genevieve Nootens (eds.), Les Nationalismes majoritaires contemporains: identite, memoire, pouvoir,  Montreal: Quebec-Amerique.

“’Main Currents’ and Sociological Thought,” Brian-Paul Frost and Daniel J. Mahoney (eds.), Political Reason in the Age of Ideology: Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron, New Brunswick: Transaction.

“Nazionalism i razum,” (Nationalism and the Mind), V. Tishkov and V. Shnirelman, Russian Academy of Sciences (eds.), Nazionalism v mirovoi istorii, Moscow: Nauka, pp. 105-122.

2006    “Razmyshlenia ob intelligentsii v postsovetskoi Rossii (Thoughts about the Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet Russia)” Vremia Iskat’: a journal of socio-political thought, history, and culture, v. 13, pp. 44-55.

“Modernity and Nationalism,” G. Delanty and K. Kumar (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Nations and Nationalism, Oxford University Press.

“Nationalism and Modern Economy: Communing with the Spirit of Max Weber,” Max Weber Studies, Vol. 5.2/6.1 (July 2005/January 2006), pp. 317-343

“Nacionalismo y economia moderna: Conversando con el espiritu de Max Weber,” Javier Rodriguez (ed.) En el centenario de La etica protestante y el espiritu del capitalismo, Madrid: CIS, pp. 177-201

2005    “The Trouble with Social Science: a propos Some New Work on Nationalism,” Critical Review, 17:1-2, pp. 101-116.

“Nationalism and Economic Growth,” Milan Zafirowsky (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, Routledge.

“When the Sky is the Limit: Busyness in Contemporary American Society,” Social Research, v. 72:2 (Summer), pp. 1-24.

“Nationalism and the Mind,” Nations and Nationalism, v. 11:4, pp. 325-341.

“Musing on Dan Bell,” Mark Lilla and Wieseltier, L. (eds.) Daniel Bell Festschrift. Chicago, pp. 45-55.

2004    “Speaking Historically about Globalization and other Fictions,” Historically Speaking, v. 5:3 (January)

“Is Modernity Possible without Nationalism?” in Michel Seymour (ed.), The Fate of the Nation-State, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 31-51.

“A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences?” Critical Review, v. 16:2-3, pp. 288-322.

“Nationalism in Comparative Perspective” (with Jonathan Eastwood), pp. 247-265 in The Cambridge Handbook of Political Sociology.

2003    “Friedrich List,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press.

Review of Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe,  Alice Taichova et al (eds.), Journal of Economic History, March.

2002    “La modernite est-elle possible sans le nationalisme?” pp. 65-77 in Michel Seymour (ed.) Etats-nations, multinations et organisations supranationales, Montreal:Liber

“The Parochialism of ‘Globalization'”, Partisan Review, LXIX:4, Fall, pp. 643-652

2001    “How Economics Became a Science: A Surprising Career of a Model Discipline,” in Amanda Anderson and J. Valente (eds.), Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siecle, Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 87-125

2000    “Etymology, Definitions, Types,” lead theoretical essay, Encyclopedia of Nationalism,  v. 1, pp. 251-265

“Western Europe,” Encyclopedia of Nationalism, v. 1, pp. 883-898

Review of Tismanianu’s “Fantasies of Salvation,” Slavic Review, 59:3, pp. 642-3

“Democracy, Ethnic Diversity, and Nationalism,” Proceedings of the Nobel Symposium, UCL Press, pp. 25-36