Books by Raymond Taras

Through a comprehensive analysis of politics in this young European democracy, the authors explain the complexity and uncertainty of political processes and outcomes in Poland. Poland's past -the flawed Second Republic established after World War I, as well as the imperfect independence in the Soviet shadow following World War II's devastation.

"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 and application in "Understanding Ethnic Conflict" facilitates more critical analysis of contemporary ethnic conflicts and the world's response to them.

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.