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Ethnic Conflict in World Politics
by Ted Robert Gurr, Barbara Harff. 206 pgs.

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Preface

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One Ethnic Conflict And the Changing World Order

Two: The World Of Ethnopolitical Groups

Conclusion

Three: The Pursuit of Autonomy: The Kurds and Miskitos

C0nclusion

Four: Protecting Group Rights In Plural Societies: The Chinese in Malaysia And Turks in Germany

Conclusion

Five: A Framework for Analysis Of Ethnopolitical Mobilization and Conflict

Conclusion

Six: The Internal Processes Of Ethnic Mobilization And Conflict: Four Cases

Conclusion

Seven: The International Dimensions Of Ethnopolitical Conflict: Four Cases

Eight: Ethnic Groups In the International System: State Sovereignty Versus Group Rights to Self-Determination

Nine: Responding To International Crises

Discussion Questions

Suggested Readings

Glossary

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The Ethnic Entanglement: Conflict and Intervention in World Politics
by John F. Stack Jr., Lui Hebron. 180 pgs.

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The ongoing reconstruction of world politics following the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European variants of communism have seemingly unleashed the power of ethnicity with a vengeance. Stack, Hebron, and their contributors explore the concept of ethnicty in international relations, seeking to address this most destabilizing, yet ubiquitous dimension of the emerging new world order.

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1: The Internationalization of Ethnicity: the Crisis of Legitimacy and Authority in World Politics

2: International Ethnopolitics: Theory, Peacekeeping, and Policy

3: World Politics and the Internationalization of Ethnicity: the Challenge of Primordial and Structural Perspectives

4: Cascading Interdependence, Democratization, and Ethnic Conflict Management in Africa

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

5: Northern Ireland: Transnational Ethnic Pressures and Institutional Responses

INTRODUCTION

IV: CONCLUSION

6: Ethnopolitics and the Post-Soviet Transitions: a Comparison of Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania

CONCLUSIONS

7: Coping with Rising Ethnic Nationalism in China: Domestic Challenge and External Pressure

INTRODUCTION

8: When Backyards Are Borders: the Debate Over Immigration Issues in Florida, 1994-1996

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

9: Constructing the Ethnic Spectacle: Identity Politics in a Postmodern World

CONCLUSION

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Evolutionary Theory and Ethnic Conflict
by Patrick James, David Goetze. 274 pgs.

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Part I: Evolutionary Theory and Ethnic Conflict

1: What Can Evolutionary Theory Say about Ethnic Phenomena?

2: The Roots of Ethnic Conflict

3: A Defense and an Extension of Pierre Van Den Berghe's Theory of Ethnic Nepotism

4: Contributions of Evolutionary Thinking to Theories of Ethnic Conflict and Its Management

Part II: Skeptical Views

5: From Ontology to Analogy

6: Primordialism, Evolutionary Theory, and the Timing of Ethnic Conflict

7: Evolution, Ethnicity, and Propaganda

Part III: Applications

8: National Identity in the Balkans

9: Regionalism and Evolutionary Theory in the Former Soviet Union

10: Evolutionary Models, Third-Party Intervention, and Ethnic Conflict

11: An Evolutionary Approach toward the Drafting of Autonomy Agreements

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Identifying Potential Ethnic Conflict: Application of a Process Model
by Thomas S. Szayna. 329 pgs.

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Intrastate communitarian strife, dubbed ethnic conflict, has gained attention in the aftermath of the Cold War. This report outlines a model for anticipating the occurrence of communitarian and ethnic conflict. The model is not a mechanistic tool, but

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Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Process Model for Anticipating Ethnic Conflict

Chapter Three: The Yugoslav Retrospective Case

Annex: Demographic Characteristics of Yugoslavia in the Late 1980s

Chapter Four: The South African Retrospective Case

Annex: Demographic Characteristics of South Africa in the Late 1980s

Chapter Five: The Ethiopian Prospective Case

Annex: Demographic Characteristics of Ethiopia in 1997–1998

Chapter Six: The Saudi Arabian Prospective Case

Annex: Demographic Characteristics of Saudi Arabia in 1997–1998

Chapter Seven: Final Observations

Appendix: Questions and Guidelines for the Analyst

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Strategy and Ethnic Conflict: A Method, Theory, and Case Study
by Laure Paquette. 163 pgs.

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Ethnic conflict now presents the thorniest problems for military and civilian strategists of all stripes. This book presents a new general theory of strategy, encompassing studies of the relationship between values, interest, and strategy as these relate to ethnic conflicts. It focuses on the relationship between values and strategy, building a theory on the hypothesis that national values influence national strategy. Paquette's research reveals that national values influence national strategy through three mechanisms: cognition, appreciation, and evaluation. Each mechanism, and indeed the whole value-focused approach to strategic thinking, is described using a network of interrelated statements.

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Chapter 1: Raising the Question

Chapter 2: How and Why

Chapter 3: The Theory

Chapter 4: Using the Theory

Chapter 5: French Strategic Decision Making, 1955–1970

Notes

Chapter 6: Discussion and Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict
by John Coakley. 330 pgs.

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Recent history has thrown up vivid examples of the renewed capacity of ethnic differences to lead to deep tensions within states, tensions which frequently find expression in some form of inter-territorial conflict. One of the most characteristic approaches to resolve disputes of this kind, or at least to reduce their destructive capacities to a minimum, is to seek an accommodation between the competing groups through some form of territorial restructuring. The object of this book is to look at the very topical issue of the manner in which states attempt to cope with ethnic conflict through such territorial approaches.
Three entirely new chapters Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia -- have been commissioned for the revised edition of this highly successful book Several other contributors have provided major revisions, and the editor has written a conclusion to bring the book up to date.

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Preface to Second Edition

1: Introduction

2: Canada

3: Northern Ireland

4: Belgium

5: South Africa

6: Israel

7: Pakistan

8: Sri Lanka

9: The Dissolution of the Soviet Union

10: The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

11: The Dissolution of Yugoslavia

12: Conclusion

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Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views on Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnoviolence
by Fred L. Pincus, Howard J. Ehrlich. 466 pgs.

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Introduction

Part 1 Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations

1: The Study of Race and Ethnic Relations

2: Classifying People by Race

Notes

References

3: White Racial Formation into the Twenty-First Century

4: Talking Past Each Other: Black and White Languages of Race

5: Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations

Part 2 Prejudice

References

6: The Changing Nature of Prejudice

7: Racism and Traditional American Values

Notes

Part 3 Discrimination, Economic Restructuring, and Underclass Culture

References

8: How Cultural Values Shape Economic Success

9: Societal Changes and Vulnerable Neighborhoods

10: From Individual to Structural Discrimination

11: America's Apartheid and the Urban Underclass

12: Measuring Employment Discrimination Through Controlled Experiments

13: "We'D Love to Hire Them, but . . .": The Meaning of Race for Employers

Conclusion

References

Notes

14: Hiring Immigrant Women Silicon Valley's "Simple Formula"

Conclusion

Notes

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15: Latinos and Discrimination

Conclusion

References

16: Major Issues Relating to Asian American Experiences

17: The Case for Affirmative Action

Notes

References

Part 4 Immigration

References

18: America's Immigration "Problem"

19: Models of Pluralism the New American Dilemma

Conclusion

Notes

20: Alien Nation

21: Five Myths About Immigration

22: Lingo Jingo: English-Only and the New Nativism

Part 5 Education

Notes

References

23: Campus Ethnoviolence

Notes

References

24: "New Racism" and Old Dogmatism

25: Multiculturalism Battleground or Meeting Ground?

Part 6 Selected Topics

26: Reporting Ethnoviolence: Newspaper Treatment of Race and Ethnic Conflict

27: Ebonics, Language, and Power

28: The White Supremacist Movement in the United States Today

Conclusion

References

Part 7 Electoral Politics or Direct Action?

29: Politics

30: Representative Government: The Black Experience

31: Black Conservatives

32: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand: Building Multiracial Organizations with Direct Action

33: Privileged Polemics: White Antiracist Activists

Conclusion

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Part 8 Toward Change

34: Rethinking Racism

Notes

35: It Was All of Us Working Together: Resolving Racial and Ethnic Tension on College Campuses

36: Changing the Whole System

Conclusion

References

Statistical Appendix

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Conflict and Harmony in Multi-Ethnic Societies: An International Perspective
by Walter Morris-Hale. 344 pgs.

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Dedication

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Preface

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Introduction

Notes

Chapter One: Switzerland: A Paradigm

Chapter Two: Britain: the Mother Country, the Place of Refuge

Summary

Notes

Chapter Three: Northern Ireland: A Question Or A Problem?

Summary

Notes

Chapter Four: Canada: Political Integration Or Territorial Disintegration?

Notes

Chapter Five: Malaysia: the Consociational Experience

Notes

Chapter Six: Nigeria: A Geographical Expression, An Historical Accident, Or A Nation?

Notes

Chapter Seven: South Africa: the Decline and Fall of Apartheid

Summary

Conclusion

Notes

Appendix

Bibliography

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Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity after Violent Ethnic Conflict
by Antonia Chayes, Martha Minow. 350 pgs.

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Foreword

Introduction

Part One: Concepts

1: Constructing Coexistence

2: The Process toward Reconciliation

Part Two: Practice

3: On Hidden Ground

4: Grand Visions and Small Projects

5: Imagine Coexistence

6: Evaluating Coexistence

Part Three: Obstacles

7: Freedom's Hidden Price

8: Bureaucratic Obstacles to Imagining Coexistence

9: The Culture of Corruption in the Postconflict and Developing World

Part Four: Approaches

10: Education for Coexistence

11: Coexistence and Repair

12: Religion as an Aid and a Hindrance to Postconflict Coexistence Work

13: Engaging with the Arts to Promote Coexistence

14: Fostering Coexistence in Identity-Based Conflicts

15: The Art of the Possible Parallelism as an Approach to Promoting Coexistence

Afterword

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Irredentism: Ethnic Conflict and International Politics
by Thomas Ambrosio. 226 pgs.

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Ambrosio explores domestic and international factors to explain the initiation and settlement of irredentist conflicts. He analyzes in depth the past, present, and possible irredentist projects of Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, and Armenia within a theoretical and comparative framework.

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1: Nations, States, and the Post-Cold War World

2: Explaining Irredentist Outcomes

3: International Reaction to Irredentism in Yugoslavia

4: The Limits of Irredentism in the Former Yugoslavia

5: Western Integration and Hungarian Irredentism

6: Armenia's Permissive International Environment

7: Conclusions and Future Avenues of Research

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Appendix B

Appendix C

Selected Bibliography

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International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict
by Milton J. Esman, Shibley Telhami. 346 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

A Note to the Reader

Introduction

Part I: The Role of International Organizations in the Post-Cold-War Era

1: A Survey of Interventions

2: The Past, the Present, and the Future Prospects

3: Anomie, System Reform, and Challenges to the UN System

Part II: The Case of Lebanon

4: The Case of Nineteenth- Century Lebanon

5: The Domestic Context and Perspectives in Lebanon

6: How Peace Keeping Becomes Intervention: Lessons from the Lebanese Experience

Part III: The Case of Yugoslavia

7: Historical Roots of the Yugoslav Conflict

8: Redrawing Borders in a Period of Systemic Transition

9: The International Community and the Yugoslav Crisis

Part IV: Conclusion

10: An Outline of a Comparison between Yugoslavia and Lebanon

11: Changing Roles

References

Contributors

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Ethnoregional Conflict in Democracies: Mostly Ballots, Rarely Bullets
by Saul Newman. 284 pgs.

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Most advanced industrial democracies have been successful in controlling ethnic political conflicts peacefully. This book examines ethnoregional conflicts in seven ethnoregions--in Scotland, Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels, Quebec, Northern Ireland, and the Basque region of Spain--to explain what mactors determine electoral support for ethnoregional parties, why in some cases electoral conflict has co-existed with ethnic violence, and why there appears to be an inverse relationship between electoral success and policy success among many ethnoregional parties. As ethnic conflicts--peaceful and violent--continue to rage around the world, this important new study merits the attention of scholars and students in comparative politics and ethnic studies.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Political Science

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1: Ethnoregional Politics in Democracies

NOTES

2: The Scottish National Party: Ethnic Politics and Class Conflict

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3: Belgium: Ethnic Conflict and Elite Accommodation

NOTES

4: The Parti Québécois: Electoral Success and Policy Failure in a Hybrid System

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5: Northern Ireland: Ethnic Violence in a Democracy

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6: The Basque Country: Ballots and Bullets in a Democratizing State

CONCLUSION

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7: Ethnic Conflict and Political Order

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Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity
by Andreas Wimmer. 319 pgs.

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Nationalism and the prevalence of ethnic conflict are features of contemporary politics. Many commentators have viewed such conflicts as a return to some primitive impulse. Andreas Wimmer's book argues that nationalism is in fact characteristic of the modern world, deriving from the nature of the state. He argues that the nation-state rests on membership of a particular ethnic or national group, and the exclusion of non-members, creating the potential for conflict. Containing detailed studies of Mexico, Iraq and Switzerland, this is an original contribution to a topical debate.

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1: Shadows of Modernity

Part I: Theoretical Explorations

2: Compromise and Closure: a Theory of Social Dynamics

3: The Making of Modern Communities

Part II: State-Building and Ethnic Conflict

4: Who Owns the State? Ethnic Conflicts After the End of Empires

5: Nationalism and Ethnic Mobilisation in Mexico

6: From Empire to Ethnocracy: Iraq Since the Ottomans

Part III: The Politics of Exclusion in Nationalised States

7: Racism and Xenophobia

8: Nationalising Multi-Ethnic Switzerland

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Vigilance and Vengeance: NGOs Preventing Ethnic Conflict in Divided Societies
by Robert I. Rotberg. 292 pgs.

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INTERNATIONAL PREVENTIVE ACTION

Introduction

Chapter One International Preventive Action: Developing a Strategic Framework

Notes

GUATEMALA

Chapter Two The Search for Peace And Justice in Guatemala: Ngos, Early Warning, and Preventive Diplomacy

CHAPTER THREE: Guatemalan Indigenous NGOs and Their Capacity for Early Warning

Notes

MACEDONIA

CHAPTER FOUR: International NGOs in Preventive Diplomacy and Early Warning: Macedonia

Notes

Chapter Five Ngos, Early Warning, And Preventive Action: Macedonia

SRI LANKA

CHAPTER SIX: Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict and Preventive Action: The Role of NGOs

Notes

NIGERIA

CHAPTER SEVEN: Before "Things Fall Apart" in Nigeria: The Role of Non-Governmental Human Rights Organizations in Conflict Prevention

THE SUDAN

Chapter Eight Sovereignty and Humanitarian Responsibility: a Challenge For Ngos in Africa and the Sudan

Notes

RWANDA

CHAPTER NINE: Making Noise Effectively: Lessons from the Rwandan Catastrophe

BURUNDI

Chapter Ten Humanitarian Assistance And Conflict Prevention in Burundi

Notes

NGOs, EARLY ACTION, AND PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY

Chapter Eleven Conclusions: Ngos, Early Warning, Early Action, and Preventive Diplomacy

About the Authors

The World Peace Foundation

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