Book presentation: Mark Beissinger, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion

Panel discussion with:

Mark Beissinger (Princeton University), author of the book
Jan Matti Dollbaum (University of Bremen, SOCIUM), discussant
Klaus Schlichte (University of Bremen, InIIS), discussant
Seongcheol Kim (University of Bremen, InIIS/FSO), opening remarks and moderation

Mark Beissinger is Henry W. Putnam Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His main fields of research are social movements, revolutions, nationalism, state-building, and imperialism, with special reference to the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is author or editor of six books, including his award-winning monograph Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Event jointly organised by the Bremen Colloquium for Political Theory and the Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO)