Ethnic Conflicts and the Nation-State

✍ Scribed by Rodolfo Stavenhagen (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using original research by a number of highly regarded specialists, this book brings together comparative materials and distinct disciplinary approaches on the origins and dynamics of ethnic conflicts, ethnic policies of nation states, and different attempts to contain, transform and resolve ethnic conflicts. It is one of the results of a research project on ethnic conflicts and development undertaken by the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development. Includes material on Asia and the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, the former socialist countries, the United States, and Latin America.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Ethnic Question in the World Crisis....Pages 1-13
The Pitfalls of Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict....Pages 14-32
How Conflict Came About....Pages 33-65
The Structuring of Identities....Pages 66-96
The Dynamics of Conflict....Pages 97-138
Ethnic Conflict and Economic Development....Pages 139-163
Ethnic Policies....Pages 164-202
International Dimensions of Ethnic Conflicts....Pages 203-226
The Seeds of Conflict: Racism, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia....Pages 227-246
Conflict Management and the Multi-ethnic State....Pages 247-283
Conclusions....Pages 284-303
Back Matter....Pages 304-324

✦ Subjects

International Relations;Ethnicity Studies