Ethnic Conflict In The Western World

Author : Milton J. Esman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501734281

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Ethnic Conflict in the Western World by Milton J. Esman Pdf

Why, in the late 1960's, did ethnic minorities such as Scots and Welsh, Quebecois, Bretons and Basques unexpectedly begin to protest and assert their demands with fresh vigor, confidence, and even violence? What are the factors that help to explain the activation of these ethnic political movements, some of which now threaten the continued integrity of such long-established states as Canada and Great Britain? This book represents the first systematic attempt to deal with the re-emergence of ethnic conflict in Western societies. In addition to three historical and theoretical essays, there are eleven case studies of countries where ethnic nationalism has become politically significant. In a concluding chapter the editor comments on the theoretical and policy implications of the country studies.

Author : Milton Jacob Esman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:955803647

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Ethnic Conflict in the Western World by Milton Jacob Esman Pdf

Author : Barbara Harff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429974885

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Ethnic Conflict In World Politics by Barbara Harff Pdf

This second edition of Ethnic Conflict in World Politics is an introduction to a new era in which civil society, states, and international actors attempt to channel ethnic challenges to world order and security into conventional politics. From Africa's post-colonial rebellions in the 1960s and 1970s to anti-immigrant violence in the 1990s the authors survey the historical, geographic, and cultural diversity of ethnopolitical conflict. Using an analytical model to elucidate four well-chosen case studies?the Kurds, the Miskitos, the Chinese in Malaysia, and the Turks in Germany?the authors give students tools for analyzing emerging conflicts based on the demands of nationalists, indigenous peoples, and immigrant minorities throughout the world. The international community has begun to respond more quickly and constructively to these conflicts than it did to civil wars in divided Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda by using the emerging doctrines of proactive peacemaking and peace enforcement that are detailed in this book. Concludes by identifying five principles of international doctrine for managing conflict in ethnically diverse societies. The text is illustrated with maps, tables, and figures.

Author : Seamus Dunn,T.G. Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134811274

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Europe and Ethnicity by Seamus Dunn,T.G. Fraser Pdf

Based on a case study approach, this study analyzes the context of ethnic tensions across Europe, with relevance to their upsurge in the 1990s. Contributors look for explanations towards the decisions taken during WWI and at Versailles.

Author : V. P. Gagnon, Jr.
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801468889

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

"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.

Author : Anton Pelinka,Dov Ronen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135249977

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The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict, Democracy and Self-determination in Central Europe by Anton Pelinka,Dov Ronen Pdf

This volume provides an overall assessment of ethnic diversity in Central Europe in historical context and presents a critical assessment of the conflict in former Yugoslavia. It advances a hypothesis on the origins of ethnic conflict, proposes an approach to the prevention and reduction of ethnic conflict in general and in Central Europe in particular, and forwards concrete policy recommendations for the region of East and Central Europe and beyond.

Author : Amy Chua
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400076376

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World on Fire by Amy Chua Pdf

The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.

Author : Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216118480

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Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts [2 volumes] by Joseph R. Rudolph Jr. Pdf

An indispensable reference that will help students understand the major ethnic conflicts that dominate the headlines and shape the modern world. Since World War II, significant conflicts have most often taken the form of acts of violence between ethnic or national communities inside individual states. This two-volume work uses case studies to explore some four dozen of those conflicts, making it an ideal first-stop reference for students and others who wish to quickly gain an understanding of ethnic struggles. Content from the first edition is updated and new entries on recent conflicts have been added. The set's geographical range, which encompasses nearly every continent, is matched by the diversity of the conflicts explored. These include internal conflicts such as those experienced by African Americans in the United States and Muslims in France, as well as separatist movements of groups like the Chechens in Russia and Bosnians in Yugoslavia. Headline-making conflicts—for example, those in Mali and Syria—are covered as well. The book is organized alphabetically by country and region. Each essay begins with a timeline and then explores the historical background, evolution, efforts to manage, and significance of the conflict. Suggestions for follow-up research and appendices of relevant, primary source materials are also included.

Author : Milton J. Esman,Shibley Telhami
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501734298

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

From Rwanda to Somalia to the former Yugoslavia, one feature of the post-Cold War world has become dreadfully clear. Ethnic conflicts are escalating, and with them demands for international intervention. But legally most ethnic conflicts are "internal" matters. How are international organizations, their resources stretched woefully thin, to know when intervention is appropriate or possible? This volume addresses the changing nature of relations between war-torn multiethnic states and international organizations, particularly the United Nations and its agencies. Are the established norms that limit intervention in ethnic conflicts adequate to contemporary conditions? Can international organizations meet the increasing demand? If not, what are the consequences of the disparities between established norms, current capabilities, and expanding expectations—and how might these disparities be narrowed? The contributors explore the desirability and potential effectiveness of international interventions in ethnic conflicts. Detailed studies of two specific cases of severe and violent tensions, in Lebanon and Yugoslavia, complement the general discussion with particular insights into the risks and exigencies of international attempts to manage ethnic civil war. A deeply thoughtful overview of one of the most pressing and perplexing issues confronting the world today, this volume clarifies the changing role of international organizations in an increasingly fragmented world.

Author : Milton Jacob Esman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0801482313

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Ethnic Politics by Milton Jacob Esman Pdf

In this timely book Milton J. Esman surveys a recurrent and seemingly intractable factor in the politics of nations: ethnicity. As the author notes, virtually no contemporary nation-state is ethnically homogeneous. Most address the political effects of domestic ethnic difference, and many fail in the attempt--with devastatingly violent results.Esman focuses on ethnic mobilization and the management of conflict, on the ways ethnic groups prepare for political combat, and on measures that can moderate or control ethnic disputes, whether peaceful or violent.Opening with a broad synopsis of current understandings of ethnicity and its varying political salience, he illustrates his theories by analyzing experiences in South Africa, Israel-Palestine, Canada-Quebec, and Malaysia. He also outlines the political issues and dilemmas, transnational as well as domestic, caused by the vast labor migrations of Mexicans to the United States, North Africans to France, Turks to Germany, and Koreans to Japan.Can economic growth and prosperity ease ethnic conflicts? Esman addresses this question and draws conclusions based on the empirical chapters. In his view, ethnic pluralism and ethnic politics are not collective psychoses or aberrations, to be deplored and exorcised, but rather pervasive realities that observers can confront and politicians can manage.

Author : Joseph Russell Rudolph
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111880535

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Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts by Joseph Russell Rudolph Pdf

Each of 38 ethnic conflicts is presented with a timeline and extensive essay covering the conflict's details, historical background, management, and significance. This book is the perfect starting point for students and general readers seeking information about the complex and often violent forces that have changed--and continue to change--the world's political landscape.

Author : Dan Landis,Rosita D. Albert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461404484

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Handbook of Ethnic Conflict by Dan Landis,Rosita D. Albert Pdf

Although group conflict is hardly new, the last decade has seen a proliferation of conflicts engaging intrastate ethnic groups. It is estimated that two-thirds of violent conflicts being fought each year in every part of the globe including North America are ethnic conflicts. Unlike traditional warfare, civilians comprise more than 80 percent of the casualties, and the economic and psychological impact on survivors is often so devastating that some experts believe that ethnic conflict is the most destabilizing force in the post-Cold War world. Although these conflicts also have political, economic, and other causes, the purpose of this volume is to develop a psychological understanding of ethnic warfare. More specifically, Handbook of Ethnopolitical Conflict explores the function of ethnic, religious, and national identities in intergroup conflict. In addition, it features recommendations for policy makers with the intention to reduce or ameliorate the occurrences and consequences of these conflicts worldwide.

Author : Berch Berberoglu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1566393426

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The National Question by Berch Berberoglu Pdf

In Northern Ireland - Martin Orr

Author : Rodolfo Stavenhagen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015037488783

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The Ethnic Question by Rodolfo Stavenhagen Pdf

Author : Ben Hillman,Gray Tuttle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231540445

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Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang by Ben Hillman,Gray Tuttle Pdf

Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded—the most extensive chronicle of events to date. The authors examine the factors driving the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang and the political strategies used to suppress them. They also explain why certain areas have seen higher concentrations of ethnic-based violence than others. Essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the origins of unrest in contemporary Tibet and Xinjiang, this volume considers the role of propaganda and education as generators and sources of conflict. It links interethnic strife to economic growth and connects environmental degradation to increased instability. It captures the subtle difference between violence in urban Xinjiang and conflict in rural Tibet, with detailed portraits of everyday individuals caught among the pressures of politics, history, personal interest, and global movements with local resonance.