Karen Barkey
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology
- Member, Working Paper Editorial Board
Research
Karen Barkey studies state centralization / decentralization, state control and social movements against states in the context of empires. Her research focuses primarily on the Ottoman empire, and recently on comparisons between Ottoman, Habsburg and Roman empires. Her book, Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization, studies the way in which the Ottoman state found new strategies of control and managed to incorporate potentially contentious forces into the Ottoman polity. She co-edited (with Mark von Hagen) After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building, the Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires. Her new work, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective is a comparative study of different forms and moments of imperial organization and diversity. It is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Selected Work
- Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Karen Barkey. Cambridge University Press: New York, forthcoming.
- After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires. Eds Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.
- Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
- "Changing Modalities of Empire: A Comparative Study of the Ottoman and Habsburg Decline," in Empire to Nation eds, Joseph W. Esherick and Hasan Kayali Rowan and Littlefield, 2006.
- "Hegemonic Rise and Decline in Comparative Perspective: Lessons from the Early 20th Century," in Hegemonic Declines: Past and Present eds., Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn Paradigm Press, Boulder Colorado. September 2004.
- "Imperial Transformations: Eighteenth Century Ottoman Ruptures and Continuities" in Empire and Ethnicity: Coexistence and Conflict in Ottoman Society, (under review).
- "Negotiated Paths to Nationhood: A Comparison of Hungary and Romania in the Early Twentieth Century" Barkey, Karen. East European Politics and Societies, 2000
- "Taming Imperial Frontiers: Wily Empires and Borderland Peoples" Barkey, Karen. Yeni Turkiye Dergisi, 2000
