STEVE HOFFMANN (ASIA/MID EAST)

Contact Information & Background:

Professor of Government
Ladd 311 - Phone, 580-5246
E-Mail: shoffman@skidmore.edu

Ph.D & M.A. recieved from University of Pennsylvania
B.A. recieved from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamtom

Published Works

Book

India and the China Crisis, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990; Indian edition published by Oxford University Press (India), 1991.

Articles

“Perception and China Policy in India,” chapter in Francine Frankel and Harry Harding
eds., The India-China Relationship, What the U.S. Should Know, New York & Washington, D.C.: Columbia University Press, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004.

“Indo-US Strategic Worldviews” in Ashok Kapur, Yogendra Malik, Harold Gould,
Arthur Rubinoff., eds., India and the United States in a Changing World, London,
Thousand Oaks, CA, & New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2002.

“Historical Narrative and Nation-State in India,” in Arvind Sharma ed., Hinduism and
Secularism After Ayodhya, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2001.

“American Perspectives on Emergent World Powers,” in Asian Security in the 21st Century, Jasjit Singh, ed., New Delhi: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 1999.

“US and India: Some Altered Terms of Communication?” Economic and Political Weekly (May 1, 1999).

“Terrorism: Palestinian and Kashmiri,” in Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II, Armonk: N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Publisher, 1999.

“The International Politics of Southern Asia,” in Zones of Amity, Zones of Enmity, The Prospects for Economic and Military Security in Asia, James Sperling, Yogendra Malik, eds., Boston: Brill, 1998 (also appeared in Journal of Asian and African Studies (Leiden, The Netherlands) 33:1 (Feb. 1998).

“Strategic Thinking and Strategic Dialogue in Indian Foreign Policy,” in Yogendra Malik and Ashok Kapur, eds., India: Fifty Years of Democracy and Development (New Delhi: AS Publishing Corp., 1998).

“Japan's Democratic Transition," in Establishing Democracies, Mary Ellen Fischer, ed., Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997.

"Ambiguity and India's Claims to the Aksai Chin," Central Asian Survey 6 (1987).

"Nominations: The Politics of Institutionalization," in The Elections in Israel 1981, Asher Arian ed., Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 1983 (written with Giora Goldberg, Dept. of Pol. Sci., Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel).

"Politics, Social Psychology, and Indian Integration," in National Unity: The South Asian Experience, Milton Israel ed., New Delhi: Promilla, 1982.

"The Socialization Dimension of Faction Structure: India and Japan," Asian Thought and Society, 7 (1982).

"Faction Behavior and Cultural Codes: India and Japan," Journal of Asian Studies 40 (1981).

"Candidate Selection in Israel's Parliament: The Realities of Change," Middle East Journal
34 (1980). Reprinted in Gregory Mahler ed., The Israeli Political System, Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982.

“India’s Two Political Cultures Revisited,” Asian Thought and Society, 4:10 (April 1979).

"Perceived Hostility and the Indian Reaction to China," India Quarterly 29 (1973).

"Anticipation, Disaster, and Victory, India: 1962-71," Asian Survey 12 (1972).

Conference Papers Delivered

The September 2002 US National Security Strategy Document, An Interpretation,,” Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, Weekly Seminar, New Delhi, India, Jan. 18, 2003.
“The US National Security Strategy Document,” Officer-Trainee Seminar of the Indian Foreign Service Institute,Government of India, New Delhi, Jan. 22, 2003.
“Tibet and the India-China Border Conflict,” Conference on “The Cold War and Its Legacy in Tibet,” Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Apr. 20, 2002.
“The Role of the Press in India-US Relations,” India International Center, New Delhi, Jan. 24, 2002.
“Perception and China Policy in India,” Conference on “The India-China Relationship: What the US Needs to Know,” sponsored by the Asia Society and the Woodrow Wilson Center, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., Nov. 30, 2001.
Sequence of continually revised draft papers on “Indian Perceptions of China” at: (1) all-day workshop in Shanghai , China, sponsored by the the Shanghai Center for International Studies, July 9, 2002, (2) all-day workshop in Beijing China, sponsored by the China Institute for International Studies, July 12, 2001, two-day workshop in New Delhi, India, sponsored by the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, July 16, 2001.
“American Perspectives on Emergent World Powers,” Conference on Asian Security in the 21st Century, sponsored by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, 27-28 January 1999.
“United States and India on Non-Proliferation,” Seminar of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, India International Centre, New Delhi, January 15, 1999.
“US-India-China Relations,” at the Delhi Policy Group, Habitat Centre, New Delhi, January 12, 1999.
“Internal Contradictions in America’s South Asian Policy,” for panel on Indo-US relations, India International Centre, New Delhi, India, May 10, 1997.
"Japan's Transition to Democracy," for conference on "Establishing Democracies," Skidmore College October 1994.
Paper on nation-state legitimation and its critics in Indian historiography, Seminar on Tradition and Change, Southern Asian Institute, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, March 1994.
"Historical Narrative and Nation-State in India," New York Conference on Asian Studies, SUNY-New Paltz, October 16, 1993.
"India's History and the National Self-Image," New York State Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, New Haven, April 13, 1991.
"A Preliminary Comparison of India-China Conflict Spirals," Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, London, U.K., 29 March 1989.
"National Identity and the India-China Border Dispute," at the 17th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 6 November 1988.
"India and Border Conflicts: A Comparison of the Aksai Chin and Rann of Kutch Cases," at the Conference on Interstate Cooperation in South Asia, Columbia University, 8 April 1988.
"The Sino-Indian Border Dispute, Then and Now," at the New York Conference on Asian Studies, State University of New York at New Paltz, 17 October 1986.
"Tradition and Change in Japanese Political Party Factions," at New York Conference on Asian Studies, Albany, 30 October 1982.
"Political Socialization in India," at Seminar on the Indian Personality, School of International Affairs, Columbia University, 8 November 1981.
"Socialization for Faction Behavior in Japan and India," at the New York Conference on Asian Studies, Oneonta, NY, 5 October 1981.
“Faction Behavior and Cultural Codes: India & Japan,” North East Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, New Haven, CT, November 1980.
“The Change in Knesset Nominations,” New York State Political Science Association Conference, Albany, NY, March 1978.
“Electoral Politics & Indian National Integration,” Conference on Indian Unity, University of Toronto, March 1978.
“Tradition and Change in Indian Politics,” Canadian Association of Professional Societies Conference, University of New Brunswick, Canada, June 1977.
“Israel’s Epochal Election: Israeli Views,” North East Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Mt. Pocono, PA, November 1977.
“Tradition & Change in Indian Politics,” Canadian Association of Professional Societies Conference, University of New Brunswick, Canada, June 1977.
“Anticipation & Military Disaster,” New York State Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Binghamton, N.Y., March 1972.

Book Reviews

Review of Israel at the Polls: A Study of the Knesset Elections, ed. by Howard Penniman and Daniel Elazar, for the American Political Science Review, 81:4 (December 1987).
“Israel at the Polls: 1981” ed., by Penniman and Elazar” in the American Political Science Review, 1982
Journal of Politics, 42 (1980), review of Mary Carras, Indira Gandhi in the Crucible of Leadership.
Asian Thought & Society, 3 (1978), review of Leo Rose, The Politics of Bhutan.
Asia Bulletin (1977), newsletter of the Asia Society, review of B.R. Nanda ed., Indian Foreign Policy, The Nehru Years.
American Political Science Review, 68 (1974): 351, review of Gen. Brij Mohan Kaul, Confrontation with Pakistan.
Review of Duxbury Press of proposed textbook on the Middle East, March 1974.
Pacific Affairs, 46 (1973): 336, review of S.P. Sharma, India’s Boundary & Territorial Disputes.

Reviews of Articles for Professional Journals

“The 1982 Shift in China’s Relations with the Superpowers: The Indian Factor,” for Asian Survey, Fall 1988.
“Rajiv Gandhi and India-China Peace Talks,” for Asian Survey, Spring 1988.
“Political Interaction in the Israeli Knesset,” by Don Caspi of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for the British Journal of Political Science, Spring 1983.
“Bureaucratic Politics in a Developing Country,” by Yaakov Vertzberger of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for Journal of Asian Studies, and International Studies Quarterly, Summer and Fall 1983.

Professional Lectures

Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, India, January 2003.
Institute for Chinese Studies, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, July 2001.
Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, VA. January 2001
Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C., December 14, 2000.
Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2000.
Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, January 2000.
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, January 2000.
IDSA Conference on Asian Security, Habitat Center, New Delhi, January 1999.
India International Center, New Delhi, January 1999, sponsored by the IDSA.
India International Center, New Delhi, May 1997, sponsored by IDSA.
Lecture on Indian and US strategic discourses, (invitation-only) one-day conference on U.S.-India-China relations, United States Institute of Peace (with State Department and Defense Department participation), Washington, D.C., July 25, 1998.
Half-hour Interview on All India Radio (Indian national radio network), May 1997.
Lectured, and chaired discussion group at conference on "Security in South Asia," South Asia program, SUNY- Albany, May 1995.
Lecture on India-China relations, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1994.
Lecture on Middle East crisis, College of St. Rose, October 1990.
Lectures on coercive diplomacy and crisis management: 1962 Cuba crisis and 1990 Gulf War Crisis, College for a Day, Skidmore Alumni Association, Boston, MA, November 17, 1990, and at Skidmore Alumni meetings in Washington, D.C. (November 1990), Philadelphia, PA. (February 1991), San Francisco and Los Angeles, California (April 1991), Rochester, N.Y. (May 1991).
"India and the China Crisis," at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India, February 1990.
"The India-China Border Dispute, New Ideas," at University Seminar on South Asia, Columbia University, 13 December 1988.
"Myths and Realities in the Middle East," at Conference on the Quest for Peace in the Middle East, College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, 7 February 1987.
“The Sino-Indian Border Dispute: Then and Now” at New York Conference on Asian Studies, SUNY-New Paltz, 17 October, 1986.
Israeli Politics – Judaic Studies Program Skidmore College, 17 July 1986.
"The India-China Border," at Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 25 January 1985.
Lost opportunities during the India-China border dispute (no formal title to the lecture) at the
International Politics Seminar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 15 April 1983.
Similarities between socialization in India and Japan (no formal title to the lecture) at Workshop on U.S. and Japanese Perspectives on Human Potential, School of Education, Harvard University, 18 July 1981.
Graduate Seminar in International Politics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, June 1975.
Graduate Seminar on Crisis Studies, Tel Aviv University, June 1975.
Series of Public Lectures on Vietnam War, Skidmore College, 1970.
Public Lecture on Vietnam War, Skidmore College, 1968
Public Lecture on India-China Relations, Skidmore College, 1968.
Public Lecture on 1967 Middle East War, Skidmore College, 1967.

Conference Panel Participant

Organized and chaired panel on Indian history and politics after Hindu-Muslim riots of 1992-93, New York State Conference on Asian Studies, New Paltz, October 15-16, 1993.
Panel on Middle East Conflict, Skidmore Alumni Club, Washington, D.C., (appearance with Iraqi Ambassador, Mohammed Al-Mashat), November 8, 1990.
Roundtable discussion of Paul Kennedy's, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, New York
Conference on Asian Studies, Albany, 9 October 1988 (Chair).
Panel on Indian and Japanese socialization compared, Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia, April 1985.
Panel on the "self" as a concept in India and Japan, New York Conference on Asian Studies, Rochester, NY, 5 October 1985.
Panel on social-psychology in India and Japan, Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Indiana University, Bloomington, 30 May 1981.
Chaired Panel on “Political Culture Resurrected,” North East Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, New Haven, CT, November 1980.
Discussant, panel on the Indian “State of Emergency,” New York State Asian Studies Association Conference, SUNY-Albany, October 1976.
Discussant, panel on Asian Geopolitics, New York State Asian Studies Association Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 1974.
Discussant, panel, Modeling Revolutionary Theory, North East Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY, November 1972.
Organizer and Chair of Skidmore Panel on 1971 India-Pakistan War over Bangladesh, guest faculty speakers from University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, SUNY-Albany, Spring 1971.