Paul R. Brass

Paul R. Brass is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of many books, most recently Riots and Pogroms, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison, and The Politics of India since Independence (2nd edition), a volume of the New Cambridge History of India. As collective violence erupts in many regions throughout the world, we often hear media reports that link the outbreaks...