Professor Philip Roeder will lecture on the subject of "Explaining the Failures in Pluralist Federations."

His lecture will take place on Tuesday, November 20, 2007, at 12:00PM in the PPEC Conference Room, Suite #305 St Leonard's Court, 3819-Chestnut Street.

An .mp3 recording of his lecture is available as is a podcast, available through www.upenn.edu/itunes.

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Philip G. Roeder is a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on nationalism with special attention to the Soviet successor states. He is the author of Where Nation-States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism; Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics; and Soviet Political Dynamics.  He is also the co-author of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy and co-editor of Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy After Civil Wars (with Donald Rothchild). His most recent article, "Partition as a Solution to Wars of Nationalism: The Importance of Institutions" (co-authored with Thomas
Chapman), appears in the November issue of APSR. His current research project is tentatively
entitled Alternatives to Independence: The Consequences of Institutional Responses to
Secessionism.