David Bruce MacDonald

David Bruce MacDonald
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Carleton University University of Ottawa
Occupation	Professor of Political Science

David Bruce MacDonald is a professor in Political Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada and is the Research Leadership Chair for the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences. From 2002 to 2008, he worked as a senior lecturer at the Political Studies Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. From 1999-2002 he was Assistant Visiting Professor in the Social Sciences at the ECSP Europe (Paris).

He was deputy editor/book reviews editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies. He holds a PhD in International relations from the LSE which he attended as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. He earned his BA from Carleton University, and his MA in Political Science from the University of Ottawa. MacDonald has contributed as a writer to multiple Canadian journalistic publications, such as The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and the Toronto Star.

Career

Work on the former Yugoslavia

His first book, Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia, compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analyzing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events.

In 2015, The National Post explored MacDonald's analysis of the Croatia–Serbia genocide case. Agreeing with the ruling to dismiss both cases, MacDonald was sceptical of either Serbia or Croatia having committed genocide, writing that it was "not enough to kill people, or move them around and steal their land". He added that it was essential to prove any perpetrators of genocide "had this bigger motivation to destroy the group in whole or in part". Canadian newspaper Le Devoir reported on MacDonald's view that John A. Macdonald, and his government, committed "quasi-genocidal" actions against indigenous peoples in Canada during the 19th century.

Identity politics and genocide

His second book, Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide examined how Holocaust "Americanization" impacted other ethnic and social groups. The book featured theoretical chapters about the use/misuse of the term (Holocaust) by ethnic and social groups, and dissected claims of Holocaust uniqueness (with analysis of fourteen arguments).

U.S. politics

Thinking History, Fighting Evil applies his theoretical work to the study of American domestic and foreign policy. The presents the most thorough exploration to date of how World War II analogies, particularly those focused on the Holocaust, have colored American foreign policy-making after 9/11.

Publications

Books

• Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2014). ISBN 978-1-55458-840-4
• The Bush Leadership and the Power of Ideas, co-edited with Dirk Nabers. Routledge (2012). ISBN 978-1-40944-715-3
• Introduction to Politics, co-authored with Robert Garner, Peter Ferdinand and Stephanie Lawson. Toronto: Oxford University Press (2011). ISBN 978-0-19902-173-4
• Thinking History, Fighting Evil: Neoconservatives and the Perils of Historical Analogy in American Politics. Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield (2009). ISBN 978-0-73912-503-8
• Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation. Routledge (2007). ISBN 978-1-13408-571-2
• The Ethics of Foreign Policy, co-edited with R.G. Patman and B. Mason-Parker. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. (2007). ISBN 978-0-75464-377-7
• Balkan holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian victim-centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia. Oxford: Manchester University Press (2002). ISBN 978-0-71906-466-1

Book chapters

• "Australia and New Zealand: Special Relationships in the Anglo-American World", with Brendon O’Connor in Peter J Katzenstein (ed.) Anglo-America and its Discontents: Civilizational Identities beyond West and East (New York: Routledge, 2012)
• "The Power of Ideas in International Relations" in D. Nabers and N. Godehardt (eds), Regional Powers and Regional Orders (London: Routledge, 2011)
• Co-authored "Introduction" and "Conclusion" with R.G. Patman and D. Nabers in The Bush Leadership, the Power of Ideas and the War on Terror (2012)
• "Historical Analogies and Leadership in Bush Administration Foreign Policy" in The Bush Leadership, the Power of Ideas and the War on Terror (2012)
• "Americanization" in George Kurian, et al., The Encyclopedia of Political Science (Washington, DC: CQ Press/SAGE, forthcoming 2010)
• "America’s Memory Problems: Diaspora Groups, Civil Society and the Perils of ‘Chosen Amnesia’" in Jing-Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, and Arthur Kleinman (eds), Japanese Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Perspectives on Science, History and Ethics (Routledge: 2010)
• "Subaltern Discourse and Genocide: Serbian Victimization and Historical Justifications for War: 1980-2000", in Nicholas Robins and Adam Jones (eds), Genocides By The Oppressed: Subaltern Movements and Retributive Genocide (Indiana University Press, 2009).
• (editor and primary contributor), "Living Together or Hating Each Other?," in Charles Ingrao and Thomas Emmert (eds) Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholar’s Initiative (Lafayette, ID: Purdue University Press, 2009)
• "Subaltern Discourse and Genocide: Serbian Victimization and Historical Justifications for War: 1980-2000", in Nicholas Robins and Adam Jones (eds), Genocides By The Oppressed: Subaltern Movements and Retributive Genocide (Indiana University Press, 2008).
• "Putting Canada’s ‘Canadian Holocaust’ in Perspective: Comparative Indigenous History in Western Settler Societies" in Shuli Barzilai, Arza Churchman, and Allen Zysblatt (eds) Coping with Crisis: Conflict Management and Resolution (Jerusalem: Magnes Press / Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008)
• "America’s Memory Problems: Diaspora Groups, Civil Society and the Perils of ‘Chosen Amnesia’" in Jing-Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, Arthur Kleinman (eds), Japanese Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Perspectives on Science, History and Ethics (Routledge: forthcoming 2009)
• "The Importance of Being European: Narratives of East and West in Serbian and Croatian Nationalism" in Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Andrzej Marcin Suszycki (eds), Nationalism in Contemporary Europe (Berlin: LIT Verlag; Lanham, MD: Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming 2008).
• "Exceptionalism, the Holocaust and American Foreign Policy", in The Ethics of Foreign Policy (London: Ashgate, 2007).
• (co-authored with Robert G. Patman) "Introduction: Ethics and International Relations" in The Ethics of Foreign Policy (London: Ashgate, 2007).
• (co-authored with Stephen Haigh and Robert G. Patman) "Conclusion: Some Reflections on Ethics and Foreign Policy" in The Ethics of Foreign Policy (London: Ashgate, 2007).
• "India: Security in the Twentieth Century and After" in Paul Bellamy and Karl De Rouen (eds) International Security and the United States: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Publishing, 2007).
• "Serbs and the Jewish Trope: Nationalism, Victimhood and the Successor Wars in Yugoslavia: 1986-2000", in Wojciech Burszta, Tomasz Kamusella and Sebastian Wojciechowski (eds) Nationalisms Across the Globe: An overview of the nationalisms of state-endowed and stateless nations (Poznan: Wyzsza Szkola Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 2005) pp. 97–129.
• "Regionalism: New Zealand, Asia, the Pacific, and Australia" in Robert G. Patman and Chris Rudd (eds.) Sovereignty Under Siege? The Case of New Zealand (London: Ashgate Press, 2005) pp. 171–92.
• "Balkansturm 1999? Die Vereinigten Staaten, die NATO und die Bombardierung Jugoslawiens", in Adam Jones (ed.), Völkermord, Kriegsverbrechen und der Westen, trans. Ulrike Seith, Petra Weber, and Alexis Rada (Berlin: Parthas Verlag GmbH, 2005) pp 324–50.
• "The Fire in 1999?: The United States, NATO, and the Bombing of Yugoslavia", in Adam Jones (ed.) Genocide, War Crimes, and the West: Ending the Culture of Impunity (London: Zed Books, 2004), pp. 276–99.

Articles

• "Reflections on Anti-Americanism in among the Antipodes: Australia and New Zealand", co-authored with Brendan O'Connor, New Zealand Law Review (2012)
• "The Genocide Question and Indian Residential Schools in Canada" co-authored with Graham Hudson Canadian Journal of Political Science (June 2012)
• "Bush’s America and the New Exceptionalism: The Holocaust, Victimhood and the Trans-Atlantic Rift" Third World Quarterly Vol. 29 No. 6 (September 2008)
• "First Nations, Residential Schools, and the Americanization of the Holocaust: Rewriting Indigenous History in America, Australia, and Canada", Canadian Journal of Political Science (December 2007). pp. 1–21. Lead Article.
• "Imagining the Twentieth Century: Retrospective, Myth, and the Colonial Question" PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies Vol. 4, No. 1 (2007) pp. 1–27.
• "Pushing the Limits of Humanity?: Reinterpreting Animal Rights and ‘Personhood’ through the Prism of the Holocaust", Journal of Human Rights Vol. 5, No. 4 (2006) pp. 417–39.
• "Globalizing the Holocaust: A Jewish "useable past" in Serbian and Croatian nationalism", PORTAL, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2005) pp. 1–31.
• "Forgetting and Denying: Iris Chang, the Holocaust and the Challenge of Nanking", International Politics (2005) pp. 403–28. Lead Article.
• "Daring to compare: The debate about a Maori ‘holocaust’ in New Zealand", Journal of Genocide Research (September 2003) pp. 383–404.
• "The Quest for Purity: Linguistic Politics and the War in Croatia", Slovo: An inter-disciplinary journal of Russian, East European and Eurasian Affairs, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2003) pp. 5–21. Lead Article.
• « La Croatie: un exemple d’épuration langagière? », Raisons Politiques, No. 2 (May 2001) pp. 127–48.
• "The Myth of "Europe" in Croatian Politics and Economics", Slovo Vol 12 (2000) pp. 68–103.
• "Political Zionism and the ‘Nebeski Narodniks’: Towards an Understanding of the Serbian National Self", Slovo Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2 (1998) pp. 91–114.

External links

• The Humanities Soc., MacDonald
• Books by MacDonald