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Author Fawaz, Ahmed Abdel-Hafez, 1976- author.

Title Opportunity, identity, and resources in ethnic mobilization : the Iraqi Kurds and the Abkhaz of Georgia / Ahmed Fawaz
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 229 pages)
Contents Introduction -- 1. Ethnic mobilisation: basic themes -- 2. Ethnic mobilisation: theoretical framework -- 3. Ethnic identity politicisation and ethnic mobilisation -- 4. Ethnic mobilisation and political opportunity structure -- 5. Resources mobilisation and ethnic mobilisation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This book examines case studies of the Kurds in Iraq and the Abkhaz in Georgia to explore how ethnic identities become politicized by states and political entrepreneurs, leading to mobilization of ethnic populations. Through analysis of these cases, it provides a new theoretical framework to examine the process of ethnic mobilization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2017)
Subject Kurds -- Iraq -- Government relations
Abkhazians -- Georgia (Republic) -- Government relations
Minorities -- Political activity -- Iraq -- Kurdistān
Minorities -- Political activity -- Georgia (Republic)
Nationalism -- Iraq -- Kurdistān
Nationalism -- Georgia (Republic) -- Abkhazia
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Iraq
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Georgia (Republic)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity -- Political aspects
Kurds -- Government relations
Minorities -- Political activity
Nationalism
SUBJECT Iraq -- Ethnic relations
Georgia (Republic) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Georgia (Republic)
Georgia (Republic) -- Abkhazia
Iraq
Iraq -- Kurdistān
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017010848
ISBN 9781498534017
1498534015