Keith A. Darden is Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Yale Central Asia Initiative, and recipient of the Lex Hixon '63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences at Yale University. His extensive field work has carried him to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, the states of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as Greece, Germany and other more comfortable locales. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and prior to taking his appointment at Yale, Professor Darden was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University and a visiting fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies. Professor Darden's work has been published in World Politics, Politics and Society, the Journal of Common Market Studies, and other journals.
Part I. Theory and Methodology: 1. A natural experiment
2. A theory of international order
3. Three international trajectories
4. Liberalism and its rivals: history, typology, and measurement
Part II. Contingent Selection and Systematic Effects: Country-Level Analyses of Elite Selection, Ideational Change, and Institutional Choice, 1991-2002: 5. The Baltic states and Moldova
6. Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine
7. The Caucasus
8. Central Asia
Part III. Comparing Cases: 9. Alternative explanations and statistical tests
10. Smoking guns: a causal history of institutional choice
11. Conclusions and implications of the analysis.
