Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Ph.D.
Vera Eccarius-Kelly, PhD
Professor of Political Science
316 Siena Hall
Phone: (518) 782-6743
veccarius-kelly@siena.edu
EXPERIENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Border Experience
Fair Trade
Fall 2012 Fair Trade Newsletter
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Political Activism in Muslim Minority Communities
Social Movements, Protest Patterns, and Violence
Revolutionary Movements in Latin America
PUBLICATIONS: Middle East, Latin America, Globalization
"Surreptitious Lifelines: A Structural Analysis of the FARC and the PKK,"Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 24, issue 2 (2012): 235-258. Special Issue: Intersections of Crime and Terror.
The Militant Kurds: A Dual Strategy for Freedom (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, 2011).
“Reframing the Nationalist Perspective: Kurdish Civil Society Activism in Europe,” in Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey, ed. Ayse Kadioğlu and Fuat Keyman (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2010), 289-318.
"Nationalism, Ethnic Rap, and the Kurdish Diaspora,” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 22.4 (2010): 423-431.
Co-authored with Robert Yoder and Suvarna Cherukuri, “Understanding Global Information Technology and Outsourcing Dynamics,” in Handbook of Research on Global Information Technology Management in the Digital Economy, ed. Mahesh S. Raisinghani (Hershey, PA: IGI Publisher, 2008), 257-280. (Reprinted in IT Outsourcing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, ed. Kirk St. Amant (Hershey, PA: IGI Publisher, 2009).
"Interpreting the PKK's Signals in Europe," Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 2, no. 11 (2008): 10-14.
"Unresolved Questions and another Crossroads in Turkey," Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 2, no. 1 (2008): 3-6.
“The Kurdish Conundrum in Europe: Political Opportunities and Transnational Activism,” in Migration and Activism in Europe since 1945, ed. Wendy Pojmann (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 57-80.
“Counterterrorism Policies and the Revolutionary Movement of Tupac Amaru: The Unmasking of Peru’s National Security State,” in Countering Terrorism in the 21st Century, Vol. 3, ed. James J.F. Forest (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007), 463-484.
“Party Preferences and Political Participation: The Emergence of the Turkish-Origin German Voter,” Migration Letters, vol. 5. 1, 2008, 21-40.
“Deep and Ragged Scars,” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 19.1, 2007, 51-58. (Special Issue: Land Rights and Conflict).
“Guatemalan Women's Cooperatives and State Neglect,” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 18.1, 2006, 37-43. (Special Issue: Human Rights in the Americas).
Co-authored with Robert Yoder, “Teaching a Globalization Module in an Information Systems Course: The Seven Lenses Model and Outsourcing,” The International Journal of Business Research, Vol. VI, No. 2 (2006): 57-67.
“Political Movements and Leverage Points: Kurdish Activism in the European Diaspora,” The Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 22. 1, 2002, 91-118.
“Radical Consequences of Benign Neglect: The Rise of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in Germany,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 24, No.1 (2000): 161-174.
