Understanding ethnic conflict : the international dimension
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Understanding ethnic conflict : the international dimension
Longman, c2002
2nd ed
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Bibliography: p. 277-284
Includes index
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Description
The completely updated new edition of this groundbreaking text provides students with a clear analytical framework for understanding ethnic conflicts and how they affect international relations.
This text surveys theories of nationalism and ethnic conflict and tests their applicability to a number of contemporary cases: the more confident nationalism of Putin's Russia, the intensification of ethnic war in Sri Lanka, and the struggle to change the face of nationalism in the former Yugoslavia, to name just a few. After a look at the sources of nationalist conflict in a country, each case study then asks how the international system reacted. Taken as a whole, the book examines how successful the international system has been in managing the many ethnic conflicts that erupted after the Cold War. The conclusion of the new edition focuses on the dilemma facing U.S. foreign policy makers as the Bush administration begins: whether and where to intervene to combat ultra-nationalism and promote liberal internationalism.
Table of Contents
I. ETHNIC CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK.
1. Ethnic Conflict on the World Stage.
2. Ethnic Conflict and International Norms.
3. Ethnic Conflict and International Security.
4. Resolving Ethnic Conflict Through International Intervention.
II. CASE STUDIES.
5. Nationalism and the Collapse of an Empire: The Soviet Union, Russia, Chechnya.
6. Separatist Movements in Constitutional Democracies: Canada and Quebec Nationalism.
7. Protracted Ethnic Wars: The Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict in Sri Lanka.
8. Weak States and Ethnic Conflict: Secessionism and State Collapse in Africa.
9. When International Actors Engineer Separation: The Breaking Up of Yugoslavia.
10. The U.S. Response to Nationalism: To Intervene or Not to Intervene?
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