Individuals

Dr David B. MacDonald

Lecturer - Political Studies -  University of Otago

Telephone:	479-8661

Research Interests:

"Nationalism and ethnic identity; International Relations; Human Rights, genocide and Holocaust studies, American, Canadian and New Zealand foreign policy"

Publications:

(a) Books (sole authored)

• MACDONALD, David B., Balkan holocausts? Serbian and Croatian Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003) 308 pp. + xii

Books (edited)

• MACDONALD, David B. (with Robert G. Patman and Betty Mason-Parker), The Ethics of Foreign Policy (London: Ashgate Press, contract signed, manuscript in preparation)

(b) Book Chapters

• MACDONALD, David B., “Regionalism: New Zealand, Asia, the Pacific, and Australia” in Robert G. Patman and Chris Rudd (eds.) Sovereignty Under Siege? The Case of New Zealand (London: Ashgate Press, forthcoming 2005) 27 pages before formatting.
• MACDONALD, David B., “Globalizing the Holocaust: A Jewish “useable past” in Serbian and Croatian nationalism”, in Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner (eds), Strange Localities: Cultures and Identity in the 21st Century (book proposal currently under review) 47 pp before formatting.
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘The Fire in 1999?: The United States, NATO, and the Bombing of Yugoslavia’, in Adam Jones (ed.) Genocide, War Crimes, and the West: Ending the Culture of Impunity (London: Zed Books, 2004) pp 276-299.

(c) Refereed Journal Articles (in date order preferably with the most recent publication first)

• MACDONALD, David B., “‘Persons’, Jews, and Genocide: A Holocaust of Animals?”, in: Journal of Genocide Research (under review) 28 pp before formatting.
• MACDONALD, David B., “Serbs and the Jewish Trope: Nationalism, Victimhood and the Successor Wars in Yugoslavia: 1986-2000”, in Sprawy Narodowosciowe (Nationalities Affairs) Abstract accepted. In preparation to be submitted October 2004
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘Forgetting and Denying: Iris Chang, the Holocaust and the Challenge of Nanking’, in: International Politics (2004 forthcoming) 32 pp before formatting.
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘Daring to compare: The debate about a Maori ‘holocaust’ in New Zealand’, in: Journal of Genocide Research (September, 2003) pp. 383-404
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘The Quest for Purity: Linguistic Politics and the War in Croatia’, in: Slovo: An inter-disciplinary journal of Russian, East European and Eurasian Affairs, Vol. 15 No. 1 (May, 2003) pp. 5-21
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘La Croatie : un exemple d’« épuration langagière »?’, in: Raisons Politiques No 2 (May, 2001) pp. 127-148
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘The Myth of “Europe” in Croatian Politics and Economics’, Slovo Vol 12 (2000) pp. 68-103
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘Political Zionism and the “Nebeski Narodniks”: Towards an Understanding of the Serbian National Self’ in: Slovo: An inter-disciplinary journal of Russian, East European and Eurasian Affairs Vol 10 No 1-2 (1998) pp. 91-114

(h) Other Significant Conference Involvement

• MACDONALD, David B., ‘Globalizing the Holocaust: A Jewish “useable past” in Serbian nationalism’, presented at the ‘Strange Localities’ Colloquium, University of Otago, 8-9 January, 2004.
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘Re-examining Indigenous History through the Prism of the Holocaust: Some Jewish and Indigenous Perspectives’, presented at the New Zealand Political Studies Association Conference, Political Studies Department, University of Auckland, April 12-14, 2003.
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘The Myth of Europe in Croatian Politics and Economics’, presented at ‘Between A Bloc and a Hard Place’, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, July 5-8, 1999.
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘Balkanisation, Bridges, and Borders: Serbs and Croats Between East and West’, presented at CRIPT (Contemporary Research in International Political Theory) University of Bristol, February, 1998.
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘Political Zionism and the “Nebeski Narodniks”: Towards an Understanding of the Serbian National Self’, presented at Brave New World 2 University of Manchester, June, 1997.
• MACDONALD, David B., ‘Holocaust Imagery Among Serbs and Croats’, presented at Isle of Thorns Conference Sussex, February, 1997.

(m) Other Creative Works

Book Reviews in Refereed Journals:
• MACDONALD, David B., Review of Dejan Djokic (ed.), Yugoslavism: Histories of a failed idea 1918-1992 (London: C. Hurst & Company, 2003, 356 pp.) in: Nations and Nationalism (forthcoming)
• MACDONALD, David B., Double Review of Jasna Dragovic-Soso, ‘Saviours of the Nation’: Serbia’s Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism (London: C. Hurst and Company, 2002) and Ivan Colovic, The Politics of Symbol in Serbia (London: C. Hurst and Company, 2002) in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies forthcoming
• MACDONALD, David B., Review of Cathie Carmichael, Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism and the Destruction of Tradition (London: Routledge 2002), in: Nations and Nationalism forthcoming
• MACDONALD, David B., Review of Dusan Kecmanovic, Ethnic Times (Westport CT: Praeger, 2002) in: Nations and Nationalism (published but need to consult for exact issue)
• MACDONALD, David B., Review of Francisco Letamendia, Game of Mirrors: Centre-Periphery National Conflicts (London: Ashgate, 2000) in: Nations and Nationalism (published but need to consult for exact issue)
• MACDONALD, David B., Review of Michael King, The Moriori Revisited (Auckland: Penguin, 2000) in: Nations and Nationalism (published but need to consult for exact issue)
• MACDONALD, David B., Review of Umut Ozkirimli, Nationalism: A Concise Introduction (London: MacMillan, 2001) in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies (published but need to consult for exact issue)
• MACDONALD, David B., Double Review of Martha Honey and Tom Barry (eds.), Global Focus: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium (London: Macmillan, 2000); William Hyland, Clinton’s World: Remaking American Foreign Policy (Westport, CT: Praegar Publications, 1999) in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol 30 2001
• MACDONALD, David B., Double Review of Ronnie S. Landau, Studying the Holocaust: Issues, Readings, Documents (London: Routledge, 1998); Lawrence Langer, Preempting the Holocaust (New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1998) in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol 28 No 1 1999
• MACDONALD, David B., Review of Radha Kumar, Divide and Fall? Bosnia in the Annals of Partition (London: Verso, 1997) in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol 27 No 1 1998 pp. 181-3
• MACDONALD, David B., Double Review of Tim Judah, The Serbs: Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (New Haven CT: Yale UP, 1997); Marcus Tanner, Croatia: A Nation Forged in War (New Haven CT: Yale UP, 1997) in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol 26 No 3 1997 pp. 875-8
• MACDONALD, David B., Double Review of Wayne Bert, The Reluctant Superpower: United States Policy in Bosnia 1991-95 (London: MacMillan, 1997); John C. Hulsman, A Paradigm for the New World Order: A Schools of Thought Analysis of American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (New York: MacMillan, 1991) in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol 26 No 2 1997 pp. 506-8.
• MACDONALD, David B., Review of Sabrina Petra Ramet, Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to Ethnic War (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1996) in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol 26 No 1 1997 pp. 205-7