| Description |
xv, 434 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
International security readers |
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International security readers.
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| Contents |
Preface / Michael E. Brown -- Pt. I. The Sources of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict. The Causes of Internal Conflict: An Overview / Michael E. Brown. Hypotheses on Nationalism and War / Stephen Van Evera. Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas / Jack Snyder and Karen Ballentine. Containing Fear: The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict / David Lake and Donald Rothchild. Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: The Case of Serbia / V. P. Gagnon. Spiraling to Ethnic War: Elites, Masses, and Moscow in Moldova's Civil War / Stuart Kaufman. Explaining the Kashmir Insurgency: Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay / Sumit Ganguly -- Pt. II. Options for International Action. Internal Conflict and International Action: An Overview / Michael E. Brown and Chantal de Jonge Oudraat. Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars / Chaim Kaufmann. Refugee Flows as Grounds for International Action / Gil Loescher and Alan Dowty |
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Military Responses to Refugee Disasters / Barry Posen. Responding to State Failure in Africa / Jeffrey Herbst. Lessons of Liberia: ECOMOG and Regional Peacekeeping / Herbert Howe |
| Summary |
The first part of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict addresses the roots of nationalist and ethnic wars, focusing in particular on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, and Kashmir. The second part of the book, which explores options for preventing and resolving such conflicts, develops proposals for international action ranging from military intervention to partition to a reconsideration of the idea of the state of Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-434) |
| Subject |
Ethnic conflict -- Political aspects.
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Ethnic conflict.
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Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.
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Nationalism.
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War.
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Refugees.
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World politics -- 1985-1995.
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| Author |
Brown, Michael E. (Michael Edward), 1954-
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| LC no. |
96052337 |
| ISBN |
0262522241 |
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