Henry E. Hale
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998
Office: Monroe 472
Phone: (202) 994-6290
Fax: (202) 994-7743
Email: hhale@gwu.edu
Website: http://hehale5.googlepages.com/
Expertise
Ethnic politics, federalism, democratization, political parties, politics of Eurasia (esp. Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia)
Background
Henry E. Hale is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington (GW) University in Washington, DC. He specializes in issues of political regime change, ethnic politics, federalism, and international integration, frequently with a focus on the cases of the former Soviet region. His latest book, The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World, was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press's Studies in Comparative Politics series. His first book, Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2006), was selected a winner of the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award by the APSA Political Organizations and Parties (POP) section.
His articles on related themes have appeared in a variety of journals, and his "Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse" (World Politics 2004) won the Alexander L. George Award given out by the APSA Qualitative Methods section. He spent 2007 - 2008 based in Russia on a Fulbright research fellowship to work on a new book project about regime change, which he is writing up as a Title VIII Scholar at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars during spring and summer 2009.
Prior to joining GW, he taught at Indiana University (2000-2005), the European University at St. Petersburg (1999), and Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1997-98). He has also served as Research Associate at Harvard's Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project (1998-2000) and editor of the publication Russian Election Watch (1999-2000 and 2003-04). His ongoing research projects include works on party system development, regime change, and ethnofederalism.
