Christian Joppke specializes in comparative politics and political sociology. His past work, documented in two books, Mobilizing against Nuclear Energy (1993) and East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989 (1995) analyzed the relationship between social movements and the state in liberal democracies and under communism. His current work is on the politics of immigration in liberal democracies, seeking to explain the causes and dynamics of immigration and asylum policies, citizenship, “multiculturalism” and minority rights. This work is documented in two books, Immigration and the Nation-State (1999), and Selecting by Origin (2005). In addition, he edited or co-edited four books and published numerous book chapters and articles in leading political science and sociology journals, including World Politics, Theory and Society, Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Sociology, Archives européennes de sociologie, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie.

He is currently Professor of Political Science at the Graduate School of Government at the American University of Paris. Prof. Joppke holds a PhD in Sociology from University of California at Berkeley.

Email: cjoppke@aup.fr