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Edward W. Walker |
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Edward W. Walker is Executive Director of the Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Walker's research has focused on the relationship between beliefs and institutions in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and more broadly on the influence of normative ideas and mythologies on institutional change. His recent manuscript Dissolution: Sovereignty and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) emphasizes the role of institutions and the mythologies of Soviet federalism and nationality policy in the breakup of the Soviet Union. He is the editor of a posthumous volume of writings by Mark Saroyan, Minorities, Mullahs, and Modernity: Reshaping Community in the Former Soviet Union (1997), and he has written and taught on problems of ethno-politics and ethnic conflict, federalism, secession, and nationalism in post-Soviet Russia and the new states of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Walker received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1992. He has a Masters degree in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1987) and a B.A. from Harvard (1977). In 1997-98, he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Before arriving at Berkeley in 1993, he taught at Colgate and New York University.
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