Carter Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4010665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carter Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carter |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6679-833X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Divine Commands and Moral Imperatives: A Proposal in Metaethical Theology
Christians are generally committed to moral theism, moral realism, moral cognitivism, and moral rationalism. I argue that the acceptance of both moral theism and moral realism leads to a puzzle: Does God arbitrarily decide morality, or is morality independent of God? Neither horn of this dilemma is theologically or philosophically attractive. Furthermore, moral realism is dissatisfying because it is unparsimonious. I show that dispensing with mor…
Ethnic Autonomy as a Dual-Use Technology: Successful Secession under Conditions of Civil War and Peace
Scholars have argued that autonomy, federalism, and other forms of territorial self-governance for ethnic groups are both a successful tool to manage ethnic conflict and a Trojan horse that leads to separatism. This paper contributes to the debate by identifying autonomy as a dual-use technology: under conditions of peace, autonomy acts to maintain a unified state; under large-scale political violence (civil war), autonomy increases the probabili…
From Resistance Movement to Civil War: Why Violence Escalated in Lithuania but not in Moldova during Soviet Annexation (1944–1952)
This article compares resistance movements along the western borderlands of the Soviet Union between 1944 and 1952. Despite similar levels of state repression and local grievances, Moldova’s opposition movement did not escalate to the level of civil war, whereas civil wars emerged across the Baltic states, Belarus, and Ukraine. Through theory development and testing, the article compares Lithuania and Moldova, identifying the role of previous reg…
Keeping the Peace After Partition: Ethnic Minorities, Civil Wars, and the Third Generation Ethnic Security Dilemma
This paper examines partition as a solution to ethnic civil wars and modifies the ethnic security dilemma, suggesting that strong state institutions are more important than demographically separating ethnic groups to achieve an enduring peace. The paper starts with a puzzle: if ethnic separation is required for peace, how do some partitions that leave minorities behind maintain peace? The paper compares post-partition Georgia–Abkhazia, which expe…
Carter Johnson, Partition and Post-War Violence Case Study of Moldova and Pridnestrovie
Partition advocates argue that ethnic groups must be separated completely in order to prevent renewed violence but Moldova is an exception with its large “stay-behind” minority and a lack of renewed violence. This chapter uses Moldova to develop partition theory, presenting an institutionalized explanation that focuses on the interaction between state-building and minority collaboration in a post-war context. The chapter argues that strong state …
Constructing Interethnic Conflict and Cooperation: Why Some People Harmed Jews and Others Helped Them during the Holocaust in Romania
The authors draw on a natural experiment to demonstrate that states can reconstruct conflictual interethnic relationships into cooperative relationships in relatively short periods of time. The article examines differences in how the gentile population in each of two neighboring territories in Romania treated its Jewish population during the Holocaust. These territories had been part of tsarist Russia and subject to state-sponsored anti-Semitism …
The Limits to Partition
April 01 2009 The Limits to Partition Michael C. Horowitz, Michael C. Horowitz Michael C. Horowitz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alex Weisiger, Alex Weisiger Alex Weisiger is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Carter Johnson C…
Partitioning to Peace: Sovereignty, Demography, and Ethnic Civil Wars
Some scholars have proposed partition as a way to solve ethnic civil wars. Partition theorists advocate the demographic separation of ethnic groups into different states, arguing that this is the best chance for an enduring peace. Opponents argue that partition is costly in terms of its human toll and that its advocates have yet to demonstrate its effectiveness beyond a limited number of self-selected case studies. This analysis systematically ex…
Democratic transition in the Balkans: Romania's Hungarian and Bulgaria's Turkish minority (1989–99)
This article is a comparative analysis of the Hungarian minority in Romania and the Turkish minority in Bulgaria during the first ten years of their transition to democracy. Despite austere assimilationist campaigns during the communist‐era and the unstable political region of the Balkans in its post‐communist‐era, both countries have avoided protracted, inter‐ethnic violence. This article examines three internal factors that have played an instr…
Constructing Interethnic Conflict and Cooperation: Why Some People Harmed Jews and Others Helped Them during the Holocaust in Romania
The authors draw on a natural experiment to demonstrate that states can reconstruct conflictual interethnic relationships into cooperative relationships in relatively short periods of time. The article examines differences in how the gentile population in each of two neighboring territories in Romania treated its Jewish population during the Holocaust. These territories had been part of tsarist Russia and subject to state-sponsored anti-Semitism …
Partitioning to Peace: Sovereignty, Demography, and Ethnic Civil Wars
Some scholars have proposed partition as a way to solve ethnic civil wars. Partition theorists advocate the demographic separation of ethnic groups into different states, arguing that this is the best chance for an enduring peace. Opponents argue that partition is costly in terms of its human toll and that its advocates have yet to demonstrate its effectiveness beyond a limited number of self-selected case studies. This analysis systematically ex…
Democratic transition in the Balkans: Romania's Hungarian and Bulgaria's Turkish minority (1989–99)
This article is a comparative analysis of the Hungarian minority in Romania and the Turkish minority in Bulgaria during the first ten years of their transition to democracy. Despite austere assimilationist campaigns during the communist‐era and the unstable political region of the Balkans in its post‐communist‐era, both countries have avoided protracted, inter‐ethnic violence. This article examines three internal factors that have played an instr…
The Limits to Partition
April 01 2009 The Limits to Partition Michael C. Horowitz, Michael C. Horowitz Michael C. Horowitz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alex Weisiger, Alex Weisiger Alex Weisiger is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Carter Johnson C…
Ethnic Autonomy as a Dual-Use Technology: Successful Secession under Conditions of Civil War and Peace
Scholars have argued that autonomy, federalism, and other forms of territorial self-governance for ethnic groups are both a successful tool to manage ethnic conflict and a Trojan horse that leads to separatism. This paper contributes to the debate by identifying autonomy as a dual-use technology: under conditions of peace, autonomy acts to maintain a unified state; under large-scale political violence (civil war), autonomy increases the probabili…
Keeping the Peace After Partition: Ethnic Minorities, Civil Wars, and the Third Generation Ethnic Security Dilemma
This paper examines partition as a solution to ethnic civil wars and modifies the ethnic security dilemma, suggesting that strong state institutions are more important than demographically separating ethnic groups to achieve an enduring peace. The paper starts with a puzzle: if ethnic separation is required for peace, how do some partitions that leave minorities behind maintain peace? The paper compares post-partition Georgia–Abkhazia, which expe…
Democratic transition in the Balkans: Romania's Hungarian and Bulgaria's Turkish minority (1989–99)
This article is a comparative analysis of the Hungarian minority in Romania and the Turkish minority in Bulgaria during the first ten years of their transition to democracy. Despite austere assimilationist campaigns during the communist‐era and the unstable political region of the Balkans in its post‐communist‐era, both countries have avoided protracted, inter‐ethnic violence. This article examines three internal factors that have played an instr…
Partitioning to Peace: Sovereignty, Demography, and Ethnic Civil Wars
Some scholars have proposed partition as a way to solve ethnic civil wars. Partition theorists advocate the demographic separation of ethnic groups into different states, arguing that this is the best chance for an enduring peace. Opponents argue that partition is costly in terms of its human toll and that its advocates have yet to demonstrate its effectiveness beyond a limited number of self-selected case studies. This analysis systematically ex…
The Limits to Partition
April 01 2009 The Limits to Partition Michael C. Horowitz, Michael C. Horowitz Michael C. Horowitz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alex Weisiger, Alex Weisiger Alex Weisiger is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Carter Johnson C…
Constructing Interethnic Conflict and Cooperation: Why Some People Harmed Jews and Others Helped Them during the Holocaust in Romania
The authors draw on a natural experiment to demonstrate that states can reconstruct conflictual interethnic relationships into cooperative relationships in relatively short periods of time. The article examines differences in how the gentile population in each of two neighboring territories in Romania treated its Jewish population during the Holocaust. These territories had been part of tsarist Russia and subject to state-sponsored anti-Semitism …
Carter Johnson, Partition and Post-War Violence Case Study of Moldova and Pridnestrovie
Partition advocates argue that ethnic groups must be separated completely in order to prevent renewed violence but Moldova is an exception with its large “stay-behind” minority and a lack of renewed violence. This chapter uses Moldova to develop partition theory, presenting an institutionalized explanation that focuses on the interaction between state-building and minority collaboration in a post-war context. The chapter argues that strong state …
Keeping the Peace After Partition: Ethnic Minorities, Civil Wars, and the Third Generation Ethnic Security Dilemma
This paper examines partition as a solution to ethnic civil wars and modifies the ethnic security dilemma, suggesting that strong state institutions are more important than demographically separating ethnic groups to achieve an enduring peace. The paper starts with a puzzle: if ethnic separation is required for peace, how do some partitions that leave minorities behind maintain peace? The paper compares post-partition Georgia–Abkhazia, which expe…
From Resistance Movement to Civil War: Why Violence Escalated in Lithuania but not in Moldova during Soviet Annexation (1944–1952)
This article compares resistance movements along the western borderlands of the Soviet Union between 1944 and 1952. Despite similar levels of state repression and local grievances, Moldova’s opposition movement did not escalate to the level of civil war, whereas civil wars emerged across the Baltic states, Belarus, and Ukraine. Through theory development and testing, the article compares Lithuania and Moldova, identifying the role of previous reg…
Ethnic Autonomy as a Dual-Use Technology: Successful Secession under Conditions of Civil War and Peace
Scholars have argued that autonomy, federalism, and other forms of territorial self-governance for ethnic groups are both a successful tool to manage ethnic conflict and a Trojan horse that leads to separatism. This paper contributes to the debate by identifying autonomy as a dual-use technology: under conditions of peace, autonomy acts to maintain a unified state; under large-scale political violence (civil war), autonomy increases the probabili…
Divine Commands and Moral Imperatives: A Proposal in Metaethical Theology
Christians are generally committed to moral theism, moral realism, moral cognitivism, and moral rationalism. I argue that the acceptance of both moral theism and moral realism leads to a puzzle: Does God arbitrarily decide morality, or is morality independent of God? Neither horn of this dilemma is theologically or philosophically attractive. Furthermore, moral realism is dissatisfying because it is unparsimonious. I show that dispensing with mor…
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