Ethnoreligious Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century

Ethnoreligious Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 0739104187
ISBN-13 : 9780739104187
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Ethnoreligious Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century by : Jonathan Fox

Provides the first systematic, empirical study of the role that religion plays in ethnic violence.

The National Question

The National Question
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Publisher : Temple University Press
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 1439901090
ISBN-13 : 9781439901090
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The National Question by : Berch Berberoglu

This volume examines the volatile nature and complex dynamics of national movements and ethnic conflict around the world.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 553
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ISBN-10 : 9781416561248
ISBN-13 : 1416561242
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by : Samuel P. Huntington

The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in today’s geopolitical climate—with a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since its initial publication in 1996, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations pose the greatest threat to world peace, but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia have changed global politics. These developments challenge Western dominance, promote opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and intensify inter-civilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, human rights, and democracy. In his incisive analysis, Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, multi-civilizational world.

Understanding Ethnic Violence

Understanding Ethnic Violence
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0521007747
ISBN-13 : 9780521007740
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding Ethnic Violence by : Roger D. Petersen

This book seeks to identify the motivations of individual perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models, labeled Fear, Hatred, Resentm ent, and Rage, gleaned from existing social science literatures. The empirical chapters apply these four models to important events of ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990's. Each historical chapter generates questions about the timing and target of ethnic violence. The four models are then applied to the case, to learn which does the best job in explaining the observed patterns of ethnic conflict.

International Law and Ethnic Conflict

International Law and Ethnic Conflict
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 0801434335
ISBN-13 : 9780801434334
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis International Law and Ethnic Conflict by : David Wippman

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Balkan Genocides

Balkan Genocides
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781442206632
ISBN-13 : 1442206632
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Balkan Genocides by : Paul Mojzes

During the twentieth century, the Balkan Peninsula was affected by three major waves of genocides and ethnic cleansings, some of which are still being denied today. In Balkan Genocides Paul Mojzes provides a balanced and detailed account of these events, placing them in their proper historical context and debunking the common misrepresentations and misunderstandings of the genocides themselves. A native of Yugoslavia, Mojzes offers new insights into the Balkan genocides, including a look at the unique role of ethnoreligiosity in these horrific events and a characterization of the first and second Balkan wars as mutual genocides. Mojzes also looks to the region's future, discussing the ongoing trials at the International Criminal Tribunal in Yugoslavia and the prospects for dealing with the lingering issues between Balkan nations and different religions. Balkan Genocides attempts to end the vicious cycle of revenge which has fueled such horrors in the past century by analyzing the terrible events and how they came to pass.

Partitions

Partitions
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 1503606988
ISBN-13 : 9781503606982
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Partitions by : Arie Dubnov

Partition--the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states--is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities--the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later Republics) of India and Pakistan, and the State of Israel--emerged as results of partition. This volume offers the first collective history of the concept of partition, tracing its emergence in the aftermath of the First World War and locating its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization. Making use of the transnational framework of the British Empire, which presided over the three major partitions of the twentieth century, contributors draw out concrete connections among the cases of Ireland, Pakistan, and Israel--the mutual influences, shared personnel, economic justifications, and material interests that propelled the idea of partition forward and resulted in the violent creation of new post-colonial political spaces. In so doing, the volume seeks to move beyond the nationalist frameworks that served in the first instance to promote partition as a natural phenomenon.

The Myth of Ethnic War

The Myth of Ethnic War
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780801468889
ISBN-13 : 0801468884
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Myth of Ethnic War by : V. P. Gagnon, Jr.

"The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had only a few years earlier been seen as very well placed to join the west. In trying to account for this outburst, most western journalists, academics, and policymakers have resorted to the language of the premodern: tribalism, ethnic hatreds, cultural inadequacy, irrationality; in short, the Balkans as the antithesis of the modern west. Yet one of the most striking aspects of the wars in Yugoslavia is the extent to which the images purveyed in the western press and in much of the academic literature are so at odds with evidence from on the ground."—from The Myth of Ethnic War V. P. Gagnon Jr. believes that the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s were reactionary moves designed to thwart populations that were threatening the existing structures of political and economic power. He begins with facts at odds with the essentialist view of ethnic identity, such as high intermarriage rates and the very high percentage of draft-resisters. These statistics do not comport comfortably with the notion that these wars were the result of ancient blood hatreds or of nationalist leaders using ethnicity to mobilize people into conflict. Yugoslavia in the late 1980s was, in Gagnon's view, on the verge of large-scale sociopolitical and economic change. He shows that political and economic elites in Belgrade and Zagreb first created and then manipulated violent conflict along ethnic lines as a way to short-circuit the dynamics of political change. This strategy of violence was thus a means for these threatened elites to demobilize the population. Gagnon's noteworthy and rather controversial argument provides us with a substantially new way of understanding the politics of ethnicity.

The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict

The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 0691016909
ISBN-13 : 9780691016900
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict by : David A. Lake

This work focuses on how, why and when ethnic conflicts either diffuse by precipitating similar conflicts elsewhere or escalate by bringing in outside parties and how such transnational ethnic conflicts can be managed. It focuses specifically on the conflicts in Eastern Europe and Africa.