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 Joel
Parker Professor of Law and Political Science
301 Silsby
Anne.Sa'adah@dartmouth.edu
A.B., Social Studies, Harvard University
Ph.D., Political Science, Harvard University
"My reasons for wanting to be a political scientist are captured in
the otherwise not very catchy title I gave my doctoral dissertation:
"Conflict and Community? The Shaping of Liberal Politics in
Revolutionary France, England, and America." I am interested in
when, why, and how human communities—political movements, universities,
countries—come to organize themselves in ways that maximize both productive conflict and
inclusiveness. I am therefore particularly interested in what happens
when societies face moments of deep and disorienting change, moments when
democratic politics is a possibility, but sometimes only one possibility among
others and in any case capable of taking a variety of forms (some more
conflict-friendly and inclusionary than others): the revolutionary
periods in England, America, and France, Reconstruction in the United States,
and postwar and post-unification Germany (see "Germany’s Second
Chance: Trust, Justice, and Democratization"). When, why, and
how do democrats win? When do reformists, rather than revolutionaries or
reactionaries, manage to prevail? For someone with my interests, modern
France, with its multiple fractures, its vibrant nationalism, and its contested
liberal tradition, has always seemed a goldmine—quite apart from the more
obvious pleasures that derive from doing research there. My most recent
book, "Contemporary France: A Democratic Education" uses modern
French politics to analyze the recurrent challenges that attend the political
project of combining conflict and community."
Recent books
- Contemporary France: A
Democratic Education. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003; xi,
340 pp.
- Germany's Second Chance: Trust,
Justice, and Democratization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1998; xii, 343 pp.
Recent articles and book chapters
- "Reflections on Democracy: The Beginning of the End or the end of the
Beginning?" Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 35, Issue
2: 249-263, Fall 2004.
- "Hope, Disappointment, and Self-Restraint: Reflections on the
Democratic Experiment," in Theodore Rabb and Ezra Suleiman, eds., The Making and Unmaking of Democracy:
Lessons from History and World Politics, New York: Routledge, pp. 66-88,
2003.
- "Ein Staatsmann mit Geschichte': Joschka Fischer's German Past,"
German Politics and Society, Vol. 19, No. 3: 56-79, Fall 2001.
- "Power in Helmut Kohl's Republic: The Two Faces of German
Democracy," German Politics and Society, Vol. 18, No. 2: 91-109,
Summer 2000.
- "The Headaches and Heartaches of Globalization: A Review of Oskar
Lafontaine's Das Herz schlägt links," German Politics and
Society, Vol. 18, No. 1: 122-131, Spring 2000.
Research interests
- European politics
- Political development and democratization
- Democratic theory
- Religion and political development
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