Publications

Caspar ten Dam (MA political science) has built a significant publication record over the years; multiple articles, book chapters and other manuscripts have been published, or will be published, in peer-reviewed journals, other journals and (academic) books, including books of his own as the sole or main author.

A more extensive version of the publication list shown below can be found in my full CV. The list below only shows the most significant publications that already have appeared.

Apart from the websites and online-editions of the journals and publishers in question, most of my publications are freely available and downloadable at:

• Leiden University Repository

• Academia.edu

• Researchgate.net

• Association for the Study of EthnoGeoPolitics

Research publications (selected/peer-reviewed a/o editorially reviewed):

2013-2019     Main publications in own journal Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics:

• ‘Tribal Kinship Identities in Present-day Societies: Proposals for Ethnogeopolitical Research’ Vol.7 No.2, Winter 2019, pp.156-167.

• ‘What (Little) We Know about Albanian Tribes: Reflections and Tabulations’  Vol.6 No.3, Winter 2018, pp.23-65.

• ‘Conflict Patterns Revisited: Trends, Frequencies, Types and Brutalities in both Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Conflicts’  Vol.5 No.1, Summer 2017, pp.41-62.

• ‘Democratic Transition, Transformation and Development in times of War and Peace’  Vol.4 No.2, Winter 2016, pp.5-18.

• ‘Looking at Conflict Patterns: Declining Frequencies yet Persistent Brutalities in both Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Conflicts’  Vol.3 No.2, Autumn 2015, pp.9-25.

• ‘Let’s be Clear: A Call for Tripartite Action-Actor-Motivation Conceptualisations in Social-Scientific Research’ (Editorial)  Vol.3 No.1, Spring 2015, pp.5-18.

• ‘Patriotism and Brutality vis-à-vis Nationalism, Ethnicity and other Identity Formations’ (Editorial)  Vol.2 No.2, Autumn 2014, pp.5-19.

• ‘Private Military Contractors: Deplore or Deploy? – Lessons from the ‘Blackwater Scandal’ in Iraq’ Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics Vol.1 No.2, Autumn 2013, pp.20-47.

 2010-2012     ‘How to Feud and Rebel’ series in Iran and the Caucasus (Brill):

• ‘1. Violence-values among the Chechens and Albanians’ Vol.14 No.2, November 2010, pp.331-65;

• ‘2. Histories, Cultures and Grievances of the Chechens and Albanians’ Vol.15 Nos.1-2, June 2011, pp.234-73; 

• ‘3. Combat-stress and Violence-values among the Chechens and Albanians’ Vol.16 No.2, July 2012, pp.225-45.

 2008-2015     Main publications in other journals a/o books:

• & Tomasz Polanski, ‘Brutalities in Anti-Imperial Revolts’ Politeja—Ethnicity, Culture, Politics Vol.31 No.2, Winter 2015, pp.199-237.

• ‘The Limitations of Military Psychology: Combat-stress and Violence-values among the Chechens and Albanians’ (pp.577-627) in: U. Bläsing, V. Arakelova & M. Weinreich (eds.), Studies on Iran and The Caucasus – Festschrift in Honour of Garnik Asatrian   Leiden: Brill, June 2015; ISBN: 9789004302013; www.brill.com/products/book/studies-iran-and-caucasus. 

• & Pavlos Koktsidis, ‘A Success Story? – Analyzing Albanian Ethno-Nationalist Extremism in the Balkans’ East European Quarterly Vol.42 No.2, 22 June 2008, pp.161-90.

Own publications (self-published manuscripts):

• Chechen clans and clan-structures: definitions, types, classifications and the need for further research (© 2013, 2015); 

• Degrees of violence: exploratory data for the Brutalisation project (© 2009, 2012, 2015); 

• ‘Private Military Contractors: Deploy or Avoid? – Lessons from the ‘Blackwater scandal’ in Iraq’ (© 2010); 

• ‘How to define rebellion, terrorism and other violence’ (short version) & How to define rebellion, terrorism and other violence’ (long version) & Definitionsidentityviolence2014 (© 2007 and 2014 respectively)

• Guest lecture on ‘Islamist terrorism in the Balkans’, University of Amsterdam &

• Organization scheme UÇK and bibliography (© 2003)

• ‘Research into Political Unrest for International Agencies, Governments, Companies  and Non-Profit Organisations’ Ten Dam Management Consultancy (© 2002)