War and Ethnicity
Global Connections and Local Violence
Published on 24. January 2003
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Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-85115-869-3 (ISBN)
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A valuable collection of articles, which should be widely read. DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE Studies on war and violence in Bosnia, Somalia and other regions, their effect on ethnic minorities, and the intervention of political and other agencies.
The great majority of today's wars take place within rather than between states and are often explained and justified by participants as the result of deep and ineradicable differences between "them" and "us". The contributors tothis book, whose disciplinary backgrounds include history, political science, international relations and anthropology, explore the growing importance of such 'ethnic' differences in a world that is also becoming more unified, politically, economically and culturally. They discuss the causes of internal war, the techniques used by nationalist politicians and intellectuals to turn ethnicity into a powerful political resource, the response of the UN and of non-governmental agencies to such "complex" political emergencies as those in former Yugoslavia and Somalia and the constitutional strategies that can be used to acknowledge and accommodate ethnic diversity. Taken together, the papers demonstrate that the relationship between ethnicity and war is not a simple matter of cause and effect. Ethnic differences are not given in nature, ethnicity does not arise suddenly andspontaneously but only in specific historical circumstances and it is unlikely to become a lethal force in human affairs except through the deliberate calculation of political elites.
DAVID TURTON is Director of the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford.
CONTRIBUTORS: TOM GALLAGHER, STEFAN TROEBST, THOMAS ZITELMANN, KLAUS JUERGEN GANTZEL, JAKOB ROESEL, HARRY GOULBOURNE, IOAN LEWIS, MARK DUFFIELD.
The great majority of today's wars take place within rather than between states and are often explained and justified by participants as the result of deep and ineradicable differences between "them" and "us". The contributors tothis book, whose disciplinary backgrounds include history, political science, international relations and anthropology, explore the growing importance of such 'ethnic' differences in a world that is also becoming more unified, politically, economically and culturally. They discuss the causes of internal war, the techniques used by nationalist politicians and intellectuals to turn ethnicity into a powerful political resource, the response of the UN and of non-governmental agencies to such "complex" political emergencies as those in former Yugoslavia and Somalia and the constitutional strategies that can be used to acknowledge and accommodate ethnic diversity. Taken together, the papers demonstrate that the relationship between ethnicity and war is not a simple matter of cause and effect. Ethnic differences are not given in nature, ethnicity does not arise suddenly andspontaneously but only in specific historical circumstances and it is unlikely to become a lethal force in human affairs except through the deliberate calculation of political elites.
DAVID TURTON is Director of the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford.
CONTRIBUTORS: TOM GALLAGHER, STEFAN TROEBST, THOMAS ZITELMANN, KLAUS JUERGEN GANTZEL, JAKOB ROESEL, HARRY GOULBOURNE, IOAN LEWIS, MARK DUFFIELD.
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English
Place of publication
Woodbridge
United Kingdom
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
488 gr
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978-0-85115-869-3 (9780851158693)
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DAVID TURTON is Director of the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford.
Content
Introduction - war and ethnicity, David Turton; my neighbour, my enemy - the manipulation of ethnic identity and the origins and conduct of war in Yugoslavia, Tom Gallagher; an ethnic war that did not take place - Macedonia, its minorities and its neighbours in the 1990s, Stefan Troebst; Oromo national liberation, ethnicity and politics mythomoteurs in the Horn of Africa, Thomas Zitelman; war in the post-World War II world - some empirical trends and a theoretical approach, Klaus Jurgen Gantzel; nationalism and ethnicity - ethnic nationalism and the regulation of ethnic conflict, Jakob Rosel; ethnic mobilization, war and multi-culturalism, Harry Goulbourne; clan conflict and ethnicity in Somalia - humanitarian intervention in a stateless society, Iaon Lewis; ethnic war and international humanitarian intervention - a broad perspective, Mark Duffield;