Lars-Erik Cederman

Born in Sweden in 1963, Lars-Erik Cederman received an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of Uppsala in 1988 and an M.A. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in 1990 before obtaining his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1994. Using computational modeling, he wrote his dissertation on how states and nations develop and dissolve. He has since taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Oxford, UCLA, and Harvard.

Lars-Erik Cederman is editor of Constructing Europe's Identity: The External Dimension (Lynne Rienner, 2001) and the author of Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve (Princeton University Press, 1997), which received the 1998 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award. He is also the author and co-author of articles in scholarly journals such as the American Political Science Review, European Journal of International Relations, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His main research interests include computational modeling, International Relations theory, nationalism, integration and disintegration processes, and historical sociology.

Curriculum Vitae

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Publications

• Weidmann, N. B., Rød, J.K. and Cederman, L.-E. (2010). Representing Ethnic Groups in Space: A New Dataset. Forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2010). New Systems Theories of World Politics. Forthcoming. . Forthcoming. London: Palgrave Macmillan
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Wimmer, A., and Min, B. (2010). Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis. Forthcoming in World Politics World 62(1)
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Girardin, L. and Gleditsch, K. S. (2010). Ethno-Nationalist Triads: Assessing the Influence of Kin Groups on Civil Wars . World Politics 61: 403-437
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Hug, S. and Krebs, L. F. (2010). Democratization and Civil War - Empirical evidence. Forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Gleditsch, K. S. (2009). Introduction to Special Issue on "Disaggregating Civil War".. Journal of Conflict Resolution 53: 487-495
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Buhaug H. and Rød, J. K. (2009). Ethno-Nationalist Dyads: A GIS-Based Analysis. Journal of Conflict Resolution 53: 496-525
   
• Weidmann, N. B. and Cederman, L.-E. (2009). GeoContest: Modeling Strategic Competition in Geopolitical Systems. Social Science Computer Review 26 [www]  
   
• Wimmer, A., Cederman, L.-E., and Min, B. (2009). Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis. American Sociological Review 74(2): 316-337 [www]  
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2008). Articulating the Geo-Cultural Logic of Nationalist Insurgency. In Order, Conflict, and Violence, edited by Stathis Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro and Tarek Masoud. Cambridge University Press, 2008 [pdf]  
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Hug, S. and Wenger, A. (2008). Democratization and War in Political Science. Democratization 15(3): 509-524 [pdf]  
   
• Buhaug, H., Cederman, L.-E. and Rød, J.-K. (2008). Disaggregating Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars: A Dyadic Test of Exclusion Theory. International Organization 62(3): 531-551 [pdf]  
   
• Johnson, D.D.P., Weidmann, N. and Cederman, L.-E. (2008). Adaptive advantages of overconfidence in war. Paper presented at the 49th ISA Convention in San Francisco, March 26 - March 29, 2008.
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Girardin, L. (2007). Beyond Fractionalization: Mapping Ethnicity onto Nationalist Insurgencies. American Political Science Review 101 (2007): 173-185
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Girardin, L. (2007). Toward realistic computational models of civil wars. Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, to be held in Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007 [pdf]  
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2007). A Comment on Eder and Trenz. In Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union. Edited by Beate Kohler-Koch and Berthold Rittberger. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Girardin, L. (2006). A roadmap to realistic computational models of civil wars. Presented at the "First World Congress on Social Simulation" Kyoto, August 21-26, 2006. [pdf]  
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Girardin, L. (2005). Growing Sovereignty: Organizational Shifts in State Systems. Presented at the conference "Political Networks II" Cambridge University, March 18-19, 2005. [pdf]  
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Kraus, P. (2005). Transnational Communication and the European Demos. In Digital Formations, edited by Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen. Princeton: Princeton University Press
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2005). Computational Models of Social Forms: Advancing Generative Macro Theory. American Journal of Sociology 110: 864-893
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and K. S. Gleditsch (2004). Conquest and Regime Change: An Evolutionary Model of the Spread of Democracy and Peace. International Studies Quarterly 48: 603-629
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2003). Endogenizing Geopolitical Boundaries with Agent-Based Modeling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 99 suppl. 3, 2002: 7296-7303.
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2003). Generating State-Size Distributions: A Geopolitical Model. Paper prepared for presentation at the Agent 2003 conference on "Challenges in Social Simulation", University of Chicago, October 2-4, 2003, and at the University of California, San Diego, January 12, 2004. [pdf]  
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2003). Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles. American Political Science Review 97: 135-150
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Daase, C. (2003). Endogenzing Corporate Identities: The Next Step in Constructivist IR Theory. European Journal of International Relations 9(1): 5-35
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2002). Nationalism and Ethnicity. In Handbook of International Relations, ed. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons. London: Sage
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2002). Levels of Complexity: Endogenizing Agent-Based Modeling. In Social Agents: Ecology, Exchange, and Evolution, edited by Charles Macal and David Sallach. Argonne National Laboratory
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2001). Constructing Europe's Identity: The External Dimension.. Boulder: Lynne Rienner
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2001). Political Boundaries and Identity Trade-Offs. 73
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Rao, M. P. (2001). Exploring the Dynamics of the Democratic Peace. Journal of Conflict Resolution 45: 818-833
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2001). Modeling the Co-Evolution of States and Nations. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Simulation of Social Agents: Architectures and Institutions, eds. David Sallach and Thomas Wolsko. Argonne National Laboratory
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2001). Nationalism and Bounded Integration: What It Would Take to Construct a European Demos. European Journal of International Relations 7: 139-174 (also published as working paper at the European University Institute, Florence (RSC No. 2000/34 European Forum Series))
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2001). Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Macrohistorical Learning Process. American Political Science Review 95 (1): 15-31
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2001). Modeling the Democratic Peace as a Kantian Selection Process. Journal of Conflict Resolution 45 (August 2001): 470-502.
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2001). Exclusion Versus Dilution: Real of Imagined Trade-Off?. In Constructing Europe's Identity: The External Dimension, ed. L.-E. Cederman. Boulder: Lynne Rienner
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2001). Agent-Based Modeling in Political Science. The Political Methodologist 10: 16-22
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (2001). Andrew Moravcsik: The Choice for Europe. The Annals of the Social Sciences
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (1997). Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press [www]  
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (1996). Expansion or Unity? Placing the European Union in a Historical Perspective. In Towards a New Europe: Stops and Starts in Regional Integration edited by Gerald Schneider, Patricia Weitsman and Thomas Bernauer. Westport, Conn.: Praeger/Greenwood
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (1996). Rerunning History: Counterfactual Simulation in World Politics. In Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, ed. Philip E. Tetlock and Aaron Belkin. Princeton: Princeton University Press
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (1996). A. D. Smith: Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era. British Journal of Sociology 47: 736-737
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (1995). Competing Identities: An Ecological Model of Nationality Formation. European Journal of International Relations 1: 331-365.
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (1994). Emergent Polarity: Analyzing State-Formation and Power Politics. International Studies Quarterly 38: 501-533.
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Schneider, G. (1994). The Change of Tide in Political Cooperation: A Limited Information Model of European Integration. International Organization 48: 633-662
   
• Cederman, L.-E. (1994). Unpacking the National Interest: An Analysis of Preference Aggregation in Ordinal Games. In Pierre Allan and Christian Schmidt Qualitative Models in Political Science. Aldershot: Edward Elgar