Curriculum vitae

Lars-Erik Cederman

Professor of International Conflict Research

Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)
ETH Zürich
Haldeneggsteig 4
CH-8092 Zurich Switzerland

PERSONAL

EDUCATION

Degrees

Courses and Exchanges

Fellowships and Honors

American Political Science Association, Washington DC. The Heinz Eulau Award for the best article in the American Political Science Review in 2001 (see publications below).

Mershon Center, Ohio State University.The Furniss Award, 2000, for Emergent Actors in World Politics (see publications below).

John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University. Visiting Scholar, 2000-2001.

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. Jean Monnet Fellow, 1999-2000.

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award, 1995.

Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation. Fellowship in Peace and Security in a Changing World, 1992-94.

The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Thord-Gray Memorial Fellowship, 1991-92.

Rotary Foundation. Graduate Fellowship for studies at the University of Michigan, 1990-91.

Swiss Confederation. Fellowship for studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, 1988-89.

Fulbright Commission. Undergraduate fellowship for studies at University of Massachusetts, 1986-87.

Marcus Wallenberg’s Foundation for International Industrial Enterprise. Scholarship, Sweden, 1986-87, 1988-89, 1991-92.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching

Research and Teaching Interests

• Conflict research
• Nationalism and ethnic conflict
• International Relations theory
• Computational modeling
• Quantitative methods
• Geographic Information Systems

Professional Memberships

• American Political Science Association
• International Studies Association

Professional Activities

Reviewer for the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies, Cornell University Press, European Journal of International Relations, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Sage Publishers, Springer Verlag, Swiss Political Science Review, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, American National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, World Politics.

Current or previous member of the Board of Editors of International Organization and of the Advisory Board of the Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Conflict Resolution and American Political Science Review.

Project leader together with Professors Andreas Wenger and Simon Hug in the National Competence Center for Research (NCCR) on “Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century” and the follow-up project “Institutional Strategies for Post-Conflict Democratization,” Swiss National Science Foundation, see http://www.nccr-democracy.uzh.ch/nccr.

Principal investigator of ECRP Project “Disaggregating Civil War.” European Science Foundation (with University of Essex and PRIO).

Co-founder of the Competence Center for “Coping with Crises in Socio-Economic Systems,” see http://www.ccss.ethz.ch/.

Co-organizer of the Trans-Atlantic Initiative on Complex Organizations and Networks (TAICON) with Professor David Lazer, 2004-2006.

Co-organizer of the “Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks” together with Professor David Lazer, Harvard University, 2001-2002.

Member of various selection committees for, among others, the best journal article in International Organization and Journal of Peace Research, and the best dissertation in International Relations (American Political Science Association).

PUBLICATIONS

• Wucherpfennig, J., Metternich, N., Cederman, L.-E., and Gleditsch, Kristian S. (2012). Ethnicity, the State and the Duration of Civil War. World Politics 64(1):79-115
   
• Cederman,L.-E., Gleditsch, K.S., Salehyan, I. and Wucherpfennig, J. (2012). Transborder Ethnic Kin and Civil War. Forthcoming in International Organization
   
• Deiwiks, C., Cederman, L.-E. and Gleditsch, K.S. (2012). Inequality and Conflict in Federations. Journal of Peace Research 49(2): 289-304
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Weidmann, N.B., and Gleditsch, K.S. (2011). Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-Nationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison. American Political Science Review 105(3):478-95
   
• Cederman, L.-E, Warren, T. C., and Sornette, D. (2011). Testing Clausewitz: Nationalism, Mass Mobilization, and the Severity of War.. International Organization 65(4):605-38
   
• Wucherpfennig, J., Weidmann, N. B., Girardin, L., Cederman, L.-E. and Wimmer, A (2011). Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time: Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset. Conflict Management and Peace Science 28(5):423-37
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Gleditsch, K.S., and Hug, S. (2011). Elections and Ethnic Civil War. Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Girardin, Luc (2010). Growing Sovereignty: Modeling the Shift from Indirect to Direct Rule. International Studies Quarterly 54 (2010): 27-48
   
• Weidmann, N. B., Rød, J.K. and Cederman, L.-E. (2010). Representing Ethnic Groups in Space: A New Dataset. Journal of Peace Research 47(4) 491-499
   
• Albert, M., Cederman, L.-E., and Wendt, A. (eds.) (2010). New Systems Theories of World Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Wimmer, A., and Min, B. (2010). Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis. World Politics 62(1): 87-119
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Hug, S. and Krebs, L. F. (2010). Democratization and Civil War - Empirical evidence. Journal of Peace Research 47 (4): 377-394
   
• 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
   
• Cederman, L.-E. and Gleditsch, K.S. (2009). Disaggregating Civil War. Special Journal Issue. Journal of Conflict Resolution
   
• Cederman, L.-E., Girardin, L. and Gleditsch, K. S. (2009). Ethno-Nationalist Triads: Assessing the Influence of Kin Groups on Civil Wars . World Politics 61: 403-437
   
• 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 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