War and Ethnicity
Global Connections and Local Violence
Published on 22. May 1997
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-878822-82-6 (ISBN)
Description
Studies examine 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 political emergencies as those in former Yugoslavia and Somalia, and the constitutional strategies that can be used to acknowledge and accommodate ethnic diversity. The papers demonstrate that the relationship between ethnicity andwar is not a simple matter of cause and effect: ethnic differences are not given in nature, ethnicity does not arise suddenly and spontaneously but only in specific historical circumstances. Only through the deliberate calculation of political elites does it become a lethal force in human affairs.Contributors: DAVID TURTON, TOM GALLAGHER, STEFAN TROEBST, THOMAS ZITELMAN, KLAUS JUERGEN GANTZEL, JAKOB ROSEL, HARRY GOULBOURNE, IAON LEWIS, MARK DUFFIELD, GIORGIO AUSENDA.
Reviews / Votes
An excellent contribution to turn-of-the-century conflict studies...War and Ethnicity is a fine, wide-ranging book that in no way exhausts its subject of inquiry, but places itself centrally in the current re-orientation taking place within peace and conflict studies. ETHNOS A valuable collection of articles, which should be widely read. * DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 610 mm
Width: 432 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-878822-82-6 (9781878822826)
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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 Juergen 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, Mark Duffield; postscript - current issues and future directions in the study of ethnicity, ethnic conflict and humanitarian intervention, Giorgio Ausenda.