Raymond Taras
Biographic Data
| ID | 117430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond Taras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond |
| FAMILY NAME | Taras |
| SIGNATURE | TARAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7702-1262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From unipolarity to multipolarity: Toward global order, or disorder
Multipolarity is often viewed as the alternative to a hegemonic international political order managed since 1991 by the United States. With the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2025, the unipolar order has not been abandoned even if comments by his Secretary of State suggest that multipolarity is inevitable. Ongoing U.S. relations with the European Union, Russia, and China have differed and in some cases mutated. The relevance of…
Assaying Western Support for Ukraine in the War Against Russia, 2022–2025: Poland and the Rest
Measuring levels of political, financial, military, and humanitarian support for Ukraine has been an unescapable subject since Russia carried out a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022. Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025 added a new inflection point to the war including his efforts to end it. European states’ capacities to lend such support have been offset by individual countries’ resources including chances…
Exhuming Samuel Huntington’s theorems: Civilizational clashes, world order, and the impact on Europe
In the summer 1993 Foreign Affairs issue Samuel Huntington published a pathbreaking article titled “The Clash of Civilizations.” He followed it up in 1996 with a book carrying the modified title The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. What was the reason for listing a fuller title? This article focuses therefore on the remaking of world order calling into question Huntington’s second theorem instead of his celebrated first – c…
Tomasz JedrowskiSwimming in the Dark
K. Ferrari Like Flies from Afar Trans. Adrian Nathan West. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 224 pages. IN A FOUR-DECADE career as a crooked Buenos Aires businessman, the protagonist of K. Ferrari’s Like Flies from Afar has harmed and humiliated a significant portion of the great city’s population. In the 1970s, Mr. Machi—nobody would dare call him by his first name—collaborated with Argentina’s military dictatorship, condemning innocent…
Islamophobia Never Rests in the Balkans: Muslim Communities and the Legacy of Exclusionary Nationalisms and Ethnic Expulsions
A long history of anti-Muslim prejudice has marked the Balkans. From Pope Urban's call to take the Holy Land back from the "Turks," to the writings of Martin Luther seeking repentance for Christian sins by undergoing Muslim persecution, to anti-Ottoman invectives by Catholic writers in the sixteenth century, Islamophobia has been a dominant narrative. But Islamophobic Orientalism may be a preferred framework for examining anti-Muslim prejudice si…
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Democracy, Civic Culture and Small Business in Russia’s Regions. Social processes in comparative historical perspective
Democracy, Civic Culture and Small Business in Russia’s Regions. Social processes in comparative historical perspective." Europe-Asia Studies, 69(1), pp. 171–172
Russia’s Security Policy under Putin. A Critical Perspective
Russia’s Security Policy under Putin. A Critical Perspective." Europe-Asia Studies, 69(3), pp. 541–542
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised ; Anders Hellström. Trust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandi navian Nationalist Populist Parties
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised . Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler, and Ola Sigurdson. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 200. Anders Hellström. Trust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandi navian Nationalist Populist Parties . New York: Berghahn
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden UnparadisedTrust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties
Book Review| October 01 2016 Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden UnparadisedTrust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised. Ed. Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler, and Ola Sigurdson. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 200.Anders Hellström. Trust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parti…
Fear and the Making of Foreign Policy: Europe and Beyond
The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism: The Making and Breaking of State Social Society, and What Followed
During its existence, but especially after its collapse, the Soviet Union and the satellite states it created have been called many things. A strong case can be made that the system it embodied sho
Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe
This work serves as a testament to the idea that Eastness is in the eye of the beholder. It explains how elites in Central and in large measure, too, Eastern Europe take far-reaching measures to un
Understanding Ethnic Conflict
Understanding Ethnic Conflict provides all the key concepts needed to understand conflict among ethnic groups. Including approaches from both comparative politics and international relations, this text offers a model of ethnic conflict's internationalization by showing how domestic and international actors influence a country's ethnic and sectarian divisions. Illustrating this model in five original case studies, the unique combination of theory …
Religion and immigration: Migrant faiths in North America and Western Europe
Given its title, the subject matter of this short book is encyclopedic in scope. Depending on what the reader hopes to gain from a broad survey of a well-researched topic, Peter Kivisto's study can
Russia Resurgent, Russophobia in Decline? Polish Perceptions of Relations with the Russian Federation 2004–2012
How accurate is it to speak of a Polish russophobia today? The historic view of Poland as the easternmost bulwark of Western Christianity has involved an ‘othering’ of Russia that may be less salient following Poland's membership in the European Union. Elite and citizen attitudes towards Russia since 2004 are analysed and, in particular, the impact of the nationalistic policies of the Kaczyńskis promoted between 2005 and 2007 is assessed. Data in…
Political Storms in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005: Cuban and Mexican Leaders’ Critiques of the Disaster Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma”
The Surveillance State Bigger, Braver New World
notebook 6 worldliteraturetoday.org What distinguishes the modern surveillance-and-control state from its predecessors is technodeterminism : the use of algorithms, not human beings, to monitor and shape citizens’ attitudes and behavior. A grotesque example of a primitive political order enslaving its subjects is found in Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov’s 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years. He retold the legend of the mankurts—pris…
Manichean Taxis and Murderous Readers: A Conversation with Rawi Hage
12 worldliteraturetoday.org photo: Madeleine Thien WLT Interview Manichean Taxis and Murderous Readers A Conversation with Rawi Hage Ray Taras July–August 2013 • 13 Ray Taras: Your writings diagnose a variety of problems plaguing contemporary societies. In Carnival, the role of circus people is to entertain the public, maybe even to distract them from really important issues—in a way similar to the bread and circuses Roman emperors offered up in …
Handbook of Transnational Governance: Institutions and Innovations
Islamophobia never stands still: Race, Religion, and Culture
Islamophobia bundles religious, ethnic and cultural prejudices together even though a narrow definition of the term flags religion as playing the central part. Calls for decoupling religion from ethnicity and culture appear justifiable: religions are increasingly disconnected from the cultures in which they have been embedded. But established political discourse infrequently makes such distinctions and may go further to racialize cultural and rel…
Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe
European anti-Muslim attitudes: the voice of public protest against out-of-touch elites? Are anti-Muslim attitudes becoming the spectre that is haunting Europe? Is Islamophobia as widespread and virulent as is made out? Or do some EU societies appear more prejudiced than others? To what extent are European fears about unmanaged immigration the basis for scapegoating Muslim communities? And is there an anti-elitest dimension to Europeans' protest …
Cultural Transformations after Communism: Central and Eastern Europe in Focus
Cultural Transformations after Communism: Central and Eastern Europe in Focus." Europe-Asia Studies, 64(4), pp. 789–790
Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics
La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq
I^^^^^^^^^MMHH r/701/ orScotland, PA.Themajor plot points ofFlix's version oftheancient Germaniclegendare identicalto Goethe's: a dissatisfied student, a bet between God and theDevil,a love interest, a jailbreak, a poodle, andan angry brother. Flixdoes takesome liberty with theendofthestory and refuses tofollow Goetheintosome of themoreluridand depressing parts ofthelatter's Faust . Attimes, Flix'sstrict adherence to Goethe's plotforces thestory …
Islamophobia never stands still: Race, Religion, and Culture
Islamophobia bundles religious, ethnic and cultural prejudices together even though a narrow definition of the term flags religion as playing the central part. Calls for decoupling religion from ethnicity and culture appear justifiable: religions are increasingly disconnected from the cultures in which they have been embedded. But established political discourse infrequently makes such distinctions and may go further to racialize cultural and rel…
Understanding Ethnic Conflict
Understanding Ethnic Conflict provides all the key concepts needed to understand conflict among ethnic groups. Including approaches from both comparative politics and international relations, this text offers a model of ethnic conflict's internationalization by showing how domestic and international actors influence a country's ethnic and sectarian divisions. Illustrating this model in five original case studies, the unique combination of theory …
Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland, by Lawrence Goodwyn
Journal Article Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland, by Lawrence Goodwyn Get access Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland by Lawrence Goodwyn. New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. 466 pp. $24.95. Raymond Taras Raymond Taras Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 2, Summer 1992, Pages 378–381, https://doi.org/1…
Russia Resurgent, Russophobia in Decline? Polish Perceptions of Relations with the Russian Federation 2004–2012
How accurate is it to speak of a Polish russophobia today? The historic view of Poland as the easternmost bulwark of Western Christianity has involved an ‘othering’ of Russia that may be less salient following Poland's membership in the European Union. Elite and citizen attitudes towards Russia since 2004 are analysed and, in particular, the impact of the nationalistic policies of the Kaczyńskis promoted between 2005 and 2007 is assessed. Data in…
Ukraine's transnationals, far‐away locals and xenophobes: The prospects for Europeanness
Nations and language‐building: Old theories, contemporary cases
Recent scholarship has revealed many different understandings of nations, nationalism and national minorities. Language as a marker of national identity is usually acknowledged, but only occasionally has it been the subject of empirical analysis. This article makes the case for grounding analysis of nations and nationalism in the language spoken by a group. After reviewing posited linkages between nations and language, it examines contrasting cas…
Religion and immigration: Migrant faiths in North America and Western Europe
Given its title, the subject matter of this short book is encyclopedic in scope. Depending on what the reader hopes to gain from a broad survey of a well-researched topic, Peter Kivisto's study can
The crisis of Marxist ideology in Eastern Europe: The poverty of utopia
Journal Article The crisis of Marxist ideology in Eastern Europe: the poverty of utopia Get access The crisis of Marxist ideology in Eastern Europe: the poverty of utopia. By Vladimir Tismaneanu. London: Routledge. 1988. 232pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 415 00494 2. Raymond Taras Raymond Taras 1Tulane University, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 4, Autumn 1989, …
Political Storms in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005: Cuban and Mexican Leaders’ Critiques of the Disaster Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma”
Diplomacy in the Former Soviet Republics
Introduction The Union Republics in Diplomacy Evolution of Union Republic Diplomacy in Law and Practice The Revitalization of Union Republic Diplomacy, 1987-1991 The Union Republics in Diplomacy: A Survey The Slavic Republics I: Russia The Slavic Republics II: Ukraine and Belarus The Baltic States and Moldova The Southern Tier: The Transcaucasus and Central Asian Union Republics Conclusion Notes Appendix I: Union Republic Delegates to the UN Gene…
The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism: The Making and Breaking of State Social Society, and What Followed
During its existence, but especially after its collapse, the Soviet Union and the satellite states it created have been called many things. A strong case can be made that the system it embodied sho
Poland’s Path From Civil Society to Consolidated Democracy: One Step Forward, One Step Back
ResumeLe point de départ de cet article est de voir comment la démocratie est reliée à une société civile construite anciennement. Tout d’abord, on observe comment les dissidents politiques considéraient que la naissance d’une société civile pendant la période communiste était une ressource qui pourrait être utilisée pour briser le monopole du pouvoir des communistes et pour produire un plus grand pluralisme. Ensuite, on évalue les efforts faits …
Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America: Case Studies from the Circum-Caribbean
It is the latter issue more precisely, the relations of the United States with Latin America that serves as the subtext of this study and, in fact, drives its principal arguments. The notion of political culture serves largely as a way to fix responsibility for the condition of under development on the 'culture' of the South rather than on the policies of the North. To this end, the authors discuss Latin American class structures, ideology, and p…
When Fatalists Rebelled: Cultural Theory, Conflicting Ways of Life Under Socialism, and Counterrevolution in Eastern Europe
Democratic Centralism and Polish Local Government Reforms
Democratic Centralism and Polish Local Government Reforms
Polish Sociology and the Base-Superstructure Debate
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Ideology in a Socialist State: Poland 1956–1983
Ideology in a Socialist State describes the changes in the ideology of Poland's rulers from the October events of 1956 to the lifting of martial law in 1983. Ideology has been one of the most debated and equivocal concepts in social science, yet this is one of the first attempts to examine it in a systematic, longitudinal and empirical way. Dr Taras analyses how central principles of Marxism-Leninism (the leading role of the party, party influenc…
Official etiologies of polish crises: Changing historiographies and factional struggles
(1986). Official etiologies of polish crises: Changing historiographies and factional struggles. Soviet Studies: Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 53-68
Québec's Language Laws and the Allophone Community: Toward a Morphology of Contemporary Québec Society
The crisis of Marxist ideology in Eastern Europe: The poverty of utopia
Journal Article The crisis of Marxist ideology in Eastern Europe: the poverty of utopia Get access The crisis of Marxist ideology in Eastern Europe: the poverty of utopia. By Vladimir Tismaneanu. London: Routledge. 1988. 232pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 415 00494 2. Raymond Taras Raymond Taras 1Tulane University, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 4, Autumn 1989, …
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Soviet relations with Latin America 1959–1987 and Latin America through Soviet eyes: The evolution of Soviet perceptions during the Brezhnev era 1964–1982
When Fatalists Rebelled: Cultural Theory, Conflicting Ways of Life Under Socialism, and Counterrevolution in Eastern Europe
Grand strategy in a post-bipolar world: Interpreting the final Soviet response
All great powers have a grand strategy—including great powers on the verge of collapse. Each power develops its code of national security ends and means differently. Among the myriad factors which explain particular grand strategies, the most important consideration is the distribution of power capabilities in the international system. Regardless of each state's desire to operate independently—to be master of its own grand strategy—the structure …
Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland, by Lawrence Goodwyn
Journal Article Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland, by Lawrence Goodwyn Get access Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland by Lawrence Goodwyn. New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. 466 pp. $24.95. Raymond Taras Raymond Taras Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 2, Summer 1992, Pages 378–381, https://doi.org/1…
Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America: Case Studies from the Circum-Caribbean
It is the latter issue more precisely, the relations of the United States with Latin America that serves as the subtext of this study and, in fact, drives its principal arguments. The notion of political culture serves largely as a way to fix responsibility for the condition of under development on the 'culture' of the South rather than on the policies of the North. To this end, the authors discuss Latin American class structures, ideology, and p…
Gomulka's ‘Rightist-Nationalist Deviation,’ The Postwar Jewish Communists, and the Stalinist Reaction in Poland, 1945-1950
The first years of Communist rule in Poland profoundly shaped the 45 year political experience of the country until the 1989 democratic breakthrough. These formative years encompassed such historic developments as postwar reconstruction and central economic planning, the emergence of new and the disappearance of old political parties, the heretical notion of a Polish road to socialism but also the advent of high Stalinism. Even with the redrawing…
Nationalism and the Breakup of an Empire: Russia and Its Periphery
Preface Introduction The Center Continuity, within Soviet Nationality Policy: Prospects for change in the post-Soviet Era by Kurt Nesby Hansen The Army and the National Question by David Jones The European Periphery Latvia: Chronicle of an Independence Movement by Juri Dreifelds Ukrainian Nationalism and the Future by Bohdan Harasymiw The Caucasian Periphery Georgia: The Long Battle for Independence by Stephen Jones Armenian Nationalism in a Soci…
The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
The End of the Walesa Era in Poland
Essay| March 01 1996 The End of the Walesa Era in Poland Ray Taras Ray Taras Ray Taras teaches political science at Tulane University. He is the author of Consolidating Democracy in Poland (Boulder; Colo.: Westview, 1995). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1996) 95 (599): 124–128. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1996.95.599.124 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Sup…
Diplomacy in the Former Soviet Republics
Introduction The Union Republics in Diplomacy Evolution of Union Republic Diplomacy in Law and Practice The Revitalization of Union Republic Diplomacy, 1987-1991 The Union Republics in Diplomacy: A Survey The Slavic Republics I: Russia The Slavic Republics II: Ukraine and Belarus The Baltic States and Moldova The Southern Tier: The Transcaucasus and Central Asian Union Republics Conclusion Notes Appendix I: Union Republic Delegates to the UN Gene…
Poland’s Path From Civil Society to Consolidated Democracy: One Step Forward, One Step Back
ResumeLe point de départ de cet article est de voir comment la démocratie est reliée à une société civile construite anciennement. Tout d’abord, on observe comment les dissidents politiques considéraient que la naissance d’une société civile pendant la période communiste était une ressource qui pourrait être utilisée pour briser le monopole du pouvoir des communistes et pour produire un plus grand pluralisme. Ensuite, on évalue les efforts faits …
Nations and language‐building: Old theories, contemporary cases
Recent scholarship has revealed many different understandings of nations, nationalism and national minorities. Language as a marker of national identity is usually acknowledged, but only occasionally has it been the subject of empirical analysis. This article makes the case for grounding analysis of nations and nationalism in the language spoken by a group. After reviewing posited linkages between nations and language, it examines contrasting cas…
National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe
Ukraine's transnationals, far‐away locals and xenophobes: The prospects for Europeanness
Rising Insurgency, Faltering Democratisation in Nepal
The objective is to chart Nepal's recent political history in order to explain how a seemingly anachronistic Maoist movement emerged to pose a threat—not just to Nepal but much of South Asia. The ineffectual political process that failed to resolve the country's most pressing problem—economic development—is examined. The infighting, support base, social grievances, ideology and strategy of the Maoist insurgency are described. The Maoists’ transna…
Transnational Xenophobia in Europe? Literary Representations of Contemporary Fears
Does an enlarged Europe harbor an enlarged fear of foreigners? Has EU expansion produced a bizarre, unintentional convergence in the xenophobic attitudes of eastern and western Europeans? What is the texture of this xenophobia in the different parts of Europe? This article is divided into three parts. First, it summarizes the contemporary European debate on fear of foreigners, antipathy towards immigrants, and the effort to enforce boundaries of …
Appassionata by Eva Hoffman
deaths of a group ofmigrants head ed forSpain froma small village on theMoroccan coast, an occurrence so common that it merits littleattention in Moroccan or European media, yet it's precisely the lack of atten tion and human respect paid to the migrants that ismost emphasized by Elalamy's elliptical, fragmentary technique. Elalamy's stretched-out typog raphy in thispassage is one of sev eral strategies in Sea Drinkers for calling attention to th…
Counterfactual Thought Experiments and Scholars’ Compulsion for Closure
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