David D. Laitin

[2] He is a comparative politics scholar who has written works on civil war,[3] ethnic identity, culture and nationalism.

[7] The experiences formed the basis of his 1998 book Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad.

[7] While at Swarthmore, he took a class alongside fellow students Margaret Levi and Peter Katzenstein, who would both go on to become prominent political scientists.

[9] He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California at Berkeley, where he did his dissertation under the guidance of Ernst Haas,[2] Hanna Pitkin,[2] and Kenneth Waltz.

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