Publications

2026 Matthias Koenig (1971-2026): From Exploring, Shifting and Surpassing of Boundaries Andreas Wimmer · KOLNER ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SOZIOLOGIE UND SOZIALPSYCHOLOGIE · Scholar only — 2026 Matthias Koenig (1971–2026) Vom Erforschen, Verschieben und Überschreiten von Grenzen Andreas Wimmer · KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie · Scholar only — 2026 The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire Andreas Wimmer · Contemporary Sociology · Scholar only — 2025 COVID, COMPASSION, AND ALTRUISTIC MOBILIZATION: EXPLAINING NONBLACK PARTICIPATION IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT OF 2020* Andreas Wimmer · Mobilization An International Quarterly · Scholar only 5 2025 The agenda setter: how Steven Vertovec’s work mirrored and advanced major shifts in migration research Andreas Wimmer · Ethnic and Racial Studies · Scholar only 3 2024 Diffusion Through Multiple Domains: The Spread of Romantic Nationalism Across Europe, 1770–1930 Andreas Wimmer · American Journal of Sociology · Scholar only 8 2024 Geo-Political Rivalry and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: A Conjoint Experiment in 22 Countries Andreas Wimmer · American Political Science Review · Scholar only 43 2024 Limited evidence that fitness interdependence produces historical origin myths Andreas Wimmer · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · Scholar only — 2024 Race and ethnicity, revisited. A comment on Wacquant’s “race as denegated ethnicity” Andreas Wimmer · Ethnicities · Scholar only 3 2023 Consent and Legitimacy: A Revised Bellicose Theory of State-Building with Evidence from around the World, 1500–2000 Andreas Wimmer · World Politics · Scholar only 21 2023 Layered Legacies. How Multiple Histories Shaped the Attitudes of Contemporary Europeans Andreas Wimmer · Sociological Science · Scholar only 13 2023 The consequences of nationalism: A scholarly exchange Andreas Wimmer · Nations and Nationalism · Scholar only 25 2023 The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail. By Steven Pfaff and Michael Hechter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 352p. $39.99 cloth. Andreas Wimmer · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2022 Interview: Andreas Wimmer and Helmut K. Anheier Andreas Wimmer · Global Perspectives · Scholar only — 2021 Alternative Routes to Nation-building? A Response to Zeynep Bulutgil and Harris Mylonas Andreas Wimmer · Nationalities Papers · Scholar only 2 2021 Classroom assignment and social cohesion Andreas Wimmer · Scholar only — 2021 Domains of Diffusion: How Culture and Institutions Travel around the World and with What Consequences Andreas Wimmer · American Journal of Sociology · Scholar only 74 2021 Exchange on the quantitative measurement of ethnic and national identity* Andreas Wimmer · Nations and Nationalism · Scholar only 51 2021 When Ethnicity and Gender Align: Classroom Composition, Friendship Segregation, and Collective Identities in European Schools Andreas Wimmer · European Sociological Review · Scholar only 36 2021 Worlds without nation‐states: Five scenarios for the very long term Andreas Wimmer · Nations and Nationalism · Scholar only 11 2020 National Secession: Persuasion and Violence in Independence Campaigns. By Philip G. Roeder. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 312p. $49.95 cloth. Andreas Wimmer · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2020 Response to Philip G. Roeder’s review of Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart Andreas Wimmer · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2019 Prestige, Proximity, and Prejudice: How Google Search Terms Diffuse across the World Andreas Wimmer · American Journal of Sociology · Scholar only 53 2019 Response to Tolz and Green Andreas Wimmer · Nations and Nationalism · Scholar only 2 2019 The Strategic Logic of Ethnoterritorial Competition: Violence against Civilians in Africa's Civil Wars Andreas Wimmer · Journal of Global Security Studies · Scholar only 29 2019 Why Nationalism Works Andreas Wimmer · Foreign Affairs · Scholar only 122 2018 National Identity and Political Power Andreas Wimmer · Foreign Affairs · Scholar only 9 2018 Nation Building. Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart Andreas Wimmer · Princeton University Press 32 2018 Repression and refuge. Why only some politically excluded ethnic groups rebel Andreas Wimmer · Journal of Peace Research 68 2017 Cognitivism re-stated: Comment on Eidson et al. Andreas Wimmer · Current Anthropology — 2017 National trauma and the fear of foreigners: How past geopolitical threat heightens anti-immigration sentiment today Andreas Wimmer · Social Forces 105 2017 Power and pride. National identity and ethno-political inequality around the world Andreas Wimmer · World Politics 95 2017 Szenarien zur Zukunft der Migration Andreas Wimmer · Zukunft der Migration. Reflexion über Wissenschaft und Politik — 2016 Is diversity detrimental? Ethnic fractionalization, public goods provision, and the historical legacies of stateness Andreas Wimmer · Comparative Political Studies 156 2016 Still no robust evidence for world polity theory Andreas Wimmer · American Sociological Review 14 2015 Race-centrism. A critique and a research agenda Andreas Wimmer · Ethnic and Racial Studies 152 2014 Blocked acculturation. How cultural origins and contemporary exclusion shape the values of Europe’s immigrants Andreas Wimmer · American Journal of Sociology 121 2014 Ethnic boundary making as strategic action: Reply to critics Andreas Wimmer · Ethnic and Racial Studies 58 2014 Nation building. A long-term perspective and global analysis Andreas Wimmer · European Sociological Review 64 2014 The Centaur state as a functional corollary of neo-liberalism Andreas Wimmer · Ethnic and Racial Studies 5 2014 War Andreas Wimmer · Annual Review of Sociology 51 2013 Ethnic Boundary Making. Institutions, Power, Networks Andreas Wimmer · Oxford University Press 2,549 2013 Is nationalism the cause or consequence of imperial breakdown? Andreas Wimmer · Nationalism and War 33 2013 States of War. How the Nation-State made modern conflict Andreas Wimmer · Foreign Affairs · needs review — 2013 Waves of War. Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World Andreas Wimmer · Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 708 2012 Can peace be engineered? Institutions, political inclusion, and ethnic conflict Andreas Wimmer · Comparative Democratization 0 2012 Nation building, ethnic closure, or populism: A formal model of political boundary making in modernizing states Andreas Wimmer · American Journal of Sociology — 2012 Struggling over the Boundaries of Belonging: A Formal Model of Nation Building, Ethnic Closure, and Populism Andreas Wimmer · American Journal of Sociology · Scholar only 87 2011 A Swiss anomaly? A relational account of national boundary making Andreas Wimmer · Nations and Nationalism 90 2011 Boundary-making Approach¹ Andreas Wimmer · The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational Communities · Scholar only —