Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts
[2 volumes]
2nd Edition
Published on 7. December 2015
Book
847 pages
978-1-61069-552-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
[T]here are few other recent works providing similar coverage. . . . Libraries that have the first edition should buy this greatly enlarged and updated version. Other libraries with an interest in international relations and modern history should also consider purchase. * Reference Reviews * Summing Up: Recommended. All levels of students. * Choice *More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-1-61069-552-7 (9781610695527)
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Person
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr., PhD, is professor of political science at Towson University.
Content
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
VOLUME 1
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabakh: A Not So "Frozen" Conflict 1
Ohannes Geukjian
Bolivia: A History of Struggle: From Anticolonial Resistance to Progressive Extractivism in the Morales Era 19
Nicole Fabricant and David W. Dent
Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Deconstruction of a State and the Birth and Growing Pangs of Bosnia-Herzegovina 39
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Canada: The Nationalism Movement in Quebec 61
Saul Newman
Central Europe: The Romany: A Stateless Minority in a World of States 79
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
China: Ethnic Conflict in the World's Largest Multinational State 99
Katherine P. Kaup
Cyprus: Turkish Cyprus: The Dynamics of a Frozen Conflict 119
Magdalena Dembinska
Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Republics: The Peaceful Breakup of a State and Life after the Velvet Divorce 137
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
East Timor (Timor-Leste): The Birth of a New State 155
Stephen Zunes
France: Ethnic Conflict and the Problem of Corsica 169
Sue Ellen M. Charlton
France: The "Foreigner" Issue 189
Britta Nelson Bleigh and Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Georgia: Separatism in Abkhazia and South Ossetia 207
Jesse Dillon Savage
Germany: The Foreign Worker Issue 221
John S. Bendix and Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Guatemala: Mayas and the Guatemalan Civil War 237
Betsy Konefal
India: Ethnic Conflict and Nation-Building in a Multiethnic State 253
Maya Chadda
Iraq: The Progress of the Kurdish Movement in Iraq 265
Burak Bilgehan Ozpek
Ivory Coast: Conflict and the Politics of Belonging in Cote d'Ivoire 287
Jeremy S. Speight
Kenya: Kenya's Legacy of Violent Ethnic Politics and the 2007-2008 Postelection Crisis 305
Sarah Jenkins
Kosovo: The Conflicts in Kosovo and the Limits of Third-Party Conflict Management 325
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Lebanon: The Lebanon Civil War, 1975-1990 347
Marie-Joelle Zahar
Malaysia: The Malay-Chinese Conflict 365
Amy L. Freedman
Mali: The Mali Crisis 379
Jaimie Bleck
Mexico: The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas 393
Richard Stahler-Sholk
VOLUME 2
The Middle East: The Arab-Jewish Struggle for Palestine to 1948
James A. Reilly
The Middle East: The Question of Palestine
Maia Carter Hallward
The Middle East: Christians in the Middle East
Paul S. Rowe
The Middle East: The Kurds' Struggle for Kurdistan
Michael M. Gunter
Myanmar (Burma): The Karen Conflict
Marie Olson Lounsbery
Nigeria: Ethnic Conflict in Multinational West Africa
Olugbemiga Samuel Afolabi
Russia and the Northern Caucasus: The Continuing Unrest
Renat Shaykhutdinov
Rwanda: Hutu-Tutsi Conflict and Genocide in Central Africa
Stephen D. Wrage
Spain: Nationalism without Contentious Conflict: The New Basque Normal
Roland Vazquez
Sri Lanka: Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict in India's Backyard
Nikolaos Biziouras and Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Sudan: Ethnic Conflict in the Sudan and the Tumultuous Birth of a New Nation
Susan R. Alaniz
United Kingdom: The Making of British Race Relations
Anthony Mark Messina
United Kingdom: The Irish Question and the Partition of Ireland
Sean P. Duffy
United Kingdom: The Conflict in Ulster
Elham Atashi
United Kingdom: Nationalism in Scotland
Robert J. Thompson
United Kingdom: The Decline and Revival of Welsh Nationalism
Elin Royles and Terrence Casey
United States: The Struggle for Survival and Equality of the First Americans
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
United States: Racial Violence in the United States:
James N. Upton
United States: Race and the Civil Rights Struggle in Post-World War II America
Kevin J. Mumford and John Bullock
United States: The United States-Puerto Rico Relationship
Lynn-Darrell Bender
Western Sahara: Ethnic Conflict and the
Stephen Zunes
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
Introduction xiii
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
VOLUME 1
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabakh: A Not So "Frozen" Conflict 1
Ohannes Geukjian
Bolivia: A History of Struggle: From Anticolonial Resistance to Progressive Extractivism in the Morales Era 19
Nicole Fabricant and David W. Dent
Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Deconstruction of a State and the Birth and Growing Pangs of Bosnia-Herzegovina 39
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Canada: The Nationalism Movement in Quebec 61
Saul Newman
Central Europe: The Romany: A Stateless Minority in a World of States 79
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
China: Ethnic Conflict in the World's Largest Multinational State 99
Katherine P. Kaup
Cyprus: Turkish Cyprus: The Dynamics of a Frozen Conflict 119
Magdalena Dembinska
Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Republics: The Peaceful Breakup of a State and Life after the Velvet Divorce 137
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
East Timor (Timor-Leste): The Birth of a New State 155
Stephen Zunes
France: Ethnic Conflict and the Problem of Corsica 169
Sue Ellen M. Charlton
France: The "Foreigner" Issue 189
Britta Nelson Bleigh and Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Georgia: Separatism in Abkhazia and South Ossetia 207
Jesse Dillon Savage
Germany: The Foreign Worker Issue 221
John S. Bendix and Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Guatemala: Mayas and the Guatemalan Civil War 237
Betsy Konefal
India: Ethnic Conflict and Nation-Building in a Multiethnic State 253
Maya Chadda
Iraq: The Progress of the Kurdish Movement in Iraq 265
Burak Bilgehan Ozpek
Ivory Coast: Conflict and the Politics of Belonging in Cote d'Ivoire 287
Jeremy S. Speight
Kenya: Kenya's Legacy of Violent Ethnic Politics and the 2007-2008 Postelection Crisis 305
Sarah Jenkins
Kosovo: The Conflicts in Kosovo and the Limits of Third-Party Conflict Management 325
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Lebanon: The Lebanon Civil War, 1975-1990 347
Marie-Joelle Zahar
Malaysia: The Malay-Chinese Conflict 365
Amy L. Freedman
Mali: The Mali Crisis 379
Jaimie Bleck
Mexico: The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas 393
Richard Stahler-Sholk
VOLUME 2
The Middle East: The Arab-Jewish Struggle for Palestine to 1948
James A. Reilly
The Middle East: The Question of Palestine
Maia Carter Hallward
The Middle East: Christians in the Middle East
Paul S. Rowe
The Middle East: The Kurds' Struggle for Kurdistan
Michael M. Gunter
Myanmar (Burma): The Karen Conflict
Marie Olson Lounsbery
Nigeria: Ethnic Conflict in Multinational West Africa
Olugbemiga Samuel Afolabi
Russia and the Northern Caucasus: The Continuing Unrest
Renat Shaykhutdinov
Rwanda: Hutu-Tutsi Conflict and Genocide in Central Africa
Stephen D. Wrage
Spain: Nationalism without Contentious Conflict: The New Basque Normal
Roland Vazquez
Sri Lanka: Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict in India's Backyard
Nikolaos Biziouras and Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
Sudan: Ethnic Conflict in the Sudan and the Tumultuous Birth of a New Nation
Susan R. Alaniz
United Kingdom: The Making of British Race Relations
Anthony Mark Messina
United Kingdom: The Irish Question and the Partition of Ireland
Sean P. Duffy
United Kingdom: The Conflict in Ulster
Elham Atashi
United Kingdom: Nationalism in Scotland
Robert J. Thompson
United Kingdom: The Decline and Revival of Welsh Nationalism
Elin Royles and Terrence Casey
United States: The Struggle for Survival and Equality of the First Americans
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
United States: Racial Violence in the United States:
James N. Upton
United States: Race and the Civil Rights Struggle in Post-World War II America
Kevin J. Mumford and John Bullock
United States: The United States-Puerto Rico Relationship
Lynn-Darrell Bender
Western Sahara: Ethnic Conflict and the
Stephen Zunes
About the Editor and Contributors
Index