The internationalization of communal strife
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The internationalization of communal strife
（Studies in international conflict series）
Routledge, 1992, c1993
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Includes index
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Description
In recent years the threat of internal violence in many East European and Third World countries has greatly increased. During the Cold War, governments frequently owed their relatively tight control to support from one of the superpowers. With the decline of the Soviet Union such countries, particularly those with ethnically heterogeneous populations, have been much more susceptible to communal strife. As the Yugoslav experience shows, such conflicts have a tendency both to intensify and to lengthen due to the intractable nature of the conflict issue, thus increasing the likelihood of external actors being pulled into the ongoing violence. In this book leading experts in comparative and international politics examine this tendency of communal conflicts to spill over into the international arena. They also look at the conditions under which these processes do not occur or are mediated successfully. The authors combine theoretical perspectives with case studies, covering examples from the First World War to state-building in Iraq (and whether it was a precursor of the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf Crisis).
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Worldwide Perspectives: The Internationalization of Protracted Communal Conflicts Since 1945 - which groups, where and how, Ted R. Gurr
- Internationalization of Communal Strife - temptations and opportunities of triangulation, I. William Zartmann
- Part 2: A Focus on the State Religion, Ideology and Ethnic Identity in the Sri Lankan Conflict, James T. Johnson
- State Building in the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf Crisis, Eric Davis
- A Comparative Analysis of the Lebanese Civil Wars of 1958 and 1975, Karen Rasler
- Diversionary Action by Authoritarian Regimes - Argentina in the Falklands/Malvinas Case, Jack S. Levy and Lily I. Vakili
- Part 3: Processes of Internationalization Factors Related to the Contagion and Diffusion of International Violence, John A. Vasquez
- Communal Strife and the Origins of the First World War, Manus I. Midlarsky
- The Impact of Regime on the Diffusion of Political Conflict, Donald Rothchild and Stuart Hill
- Part 4: Failures to Internationalize Communal Strife in Peru - a case of absence of spillover into the international arena, Cynthia McClintock
- Direct and Indirect Internationalization - the case of South Africa, Marina Ottaway
- V. Mediating Processes Gaining Entry to Mediation in Communal Strife, Saadia Touval
- External Peacemaking Initiatives and Intra-National Conflict, Christopher Mitchell.
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