Education

B.A. University of California, Berkeley (1972)
M.A. University of California, Berkeley (1974)
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Political Science (1983)

Areas of Expertise

Professor MacDonald is currently working on a book on the reasons why the United States fought the Iraq War. He is also writing a book with Professor Darel Paul on neo-liberalism in American politics.

Scholarship/Creative Work

Why Race Matters in South Africa (Harvard University Press, 2006).

Children of Wrath: Political Violence in Northern Ireland (Polity Press, Oxford, 1986).

& Darel E. Paul, “Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg: The Politics of Milton Friedman’s Economics,” Politics and Society (forthcoming in September 2011).

“The Political Economy of Identity Politics,” The South Atlantic Quarterly (Special issue: After the Thrill is Gone: A Decade of Post-Apartheid South Africa), Fall 2004, Volume 103, No 4.

“Power Politics in the New South Africa” Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, June 1996.

& Wilmot James, “Hand on the Tiller: The Politics of Race and Class in South Africa,” Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, September, 1993.

“Siren’s Song: The Political Logic of Power-Sharing in South Africa,” Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1992.

“Blurring the Difference: The Politics of Identity in Northern Ireland,” in The Irish Terrorist Experience (eds. Yonah Alexander and Alan O’Day), Dartmouth Publishers, 1991 and in South African Sociological Review, Volume 3, no. 1, October 1990.

“The Costs of Legitimacy” in The Elusive Search for Peace (eds. Hermann Giliomee and Jannie Gagiano), Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1990.

Program in International Studies