Raymond Taras (also Ray Taras) is a

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conflicts, and response to refugee crisis and

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in the receiving countries. During the 2014–15 academic year Ray Taras was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Centre for Migration Research,

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

. In 2018-19 he is Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the

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in Canberra. B.A.

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, M.A. Sussex university, M.Phil.

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, Ph.D. in political sociology,

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(1981). Languages spoken: Polish (

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), Canadian French (language of education), intermediate level in

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and

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, as well as basics in

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and

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. Raymond Taras was born in a Polish family in

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, Canada."From the scrapyard to the ivory tower"
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Published works

Ray Taras is an author and editor of over 20 monographs and over 100 articles *Ray Taras, ''Nationhood, Migration and Global Politics'', Edinburgh University Press, October 2018 *Ray Taras, ''Fear and the Making of Foreign Policy: Europe and Beyond'', Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (US distributor: OUP USA), March 2015 *Ray Taras, ed, ''Challenging multiculturalism: European Models of Diversity'', Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (US distributor: OUP USA), December 2012 *Ray Taras, ''Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe'', Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (US distributor: OUP USA), 2012 *Ray Taras, ed, ''Russia's identity in international relations: images, perceptions, misperceptions'', London: Routledge, 2012 *Ray Taras and Rajat Ganguly, ''Understanding ethnic conflict: the international dimension'', 4th edn. New York: Longman, 2010, xviii + 318 pp. (1st edn: 1998; 2nd edn: 2002; 3rd edn: 2006; 3rd edn update: 2008) *Ray Taras, ''Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia'', Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008, x + 247 pp. *Ray Taras, ''Liberal and illiberal nationalisms'', Basingstoke, England: Palgrave, 2002, xvi + 251 pp. *Marjorie Castle and Ray Taras, ''Democracy in Poland'', Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002, xx + 291 pp. *Ray Taras (ed.), ''National identities and ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe'', New York: St. Martin's Press/London: Macmillan, 1998, xii + 228 pp. *Ray Taras (ed.), ''Postcommunist presidents'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, ix + 245 pp. *Ian Bremmer, Ray Taras (eds.), ''New states, new politics: building the post-Soviet nations'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 (re-issued 2011), xxi + 743 pp 43 tables, 26 maps *Ray Taras, ''Consolidating democracy in Poland'', Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995, xii + 276 pp. *Ian Bremmer Ray Taras (eds.), ''Nations and politics in the Soviet successor states'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 (reprinted 1994, 1995), xxvii + 577 pp., 37 tables, 12 maps *Ray Taras (ed.), ''Handbook of political science research on the USSR and Eastern Europe: trends from the 1950s to the 1990s'', New York: Greenwood Press, 1992, vi + 345 pp. *Ray Taras (ed.), ''The road to disillusion: from critical Marxism to post-communism'', Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992, x + 206 pp. *Roland Ebel, Ray Taras, and James Cochrane, ''Political culture and foreign policy in Latin America: case studies from the circum-Caribbean'', Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991, viii + 267 pp. *Ray Taras (ed.), ''Leadership change in communist states'', Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989, xv + 210 pp. *Donat Taddeo and Ray Taras, ''Le débat linguistique au Québec'', Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1987, xii + 246 pp. *Ray Taras, ''Poland: socialist state, rebellious nation'', Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986, xviii + 200 pp. *Ray Taras, ''Ideology in a socialist state: Poland 1956-83'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984 (re-issued 2008), x + 299 pp.

References

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