Daniele Conversi received his PhD at the London School of Economics. He taught at the Government and History Deptartments at Cornell and Syracuse Universities, as well as at the Central European University, Budapest. His book,The Basques, the Catalans, and Spain(1997) has been acclaimed by political scientists, historians, anthropologists and sociologists alike, and has been positively reviewed in nearly forty international journals. His second bookThe disintegration of Yugoslavia(2000) has recently been translated into Catalan. Daniele Conversi is currently working on a larger volume on Theories of Nationalism

Preface 1 - Conceptualizing Nationalism, Daniele Conversi; 2 - Nationalism and Political Illegitimacy, Walker Connor; Modernity and Emotions 3 - Dating the Nation, Anthony D Smith; 4 - The Primordialists, Donald L. Horowitz; 5 - The Primordialist/ Constructivist Debate Today, Joshua A. Fishman; Case Studies 6 - Sabino's Sin: Racism and the Founding of Basque Nationalism, William Douglass; 7 - Ethnonationalism in Black and White: Scholars and the South African revolution, John Stone; 8 - Sovereignty or separation? Contemporary political discourse in Canada, John Edwards; Applied Connorian Perspectives 9 - Federations and The Management of Nations:Walker Connor and Ernest Gellner, Brendan OíLeary; 10 - Ethnic conflict and third party mediation: A critical review, William Safran; 11 - Religion and Nationalism in the First World, John Coakley; Wider Implications12 - Homeland Making and the Territorialization of National Identity, Robert J. Kaiser; 13 - Ethnicity and Nationality: The Twin-Matrices of Nationalism, Thomas Spira; 14 - Resisting Primordialism (and other -isms), Daniele Conversi; 15 - A Bibliography, 1967-2001, Walker Connor