War and Ethnicity : Global Connections and Local Violence (Studies on the Nature of War)
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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 to this 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 JüRGEN GANTZEL, JAKOB RöSEL, HARRY GOULBOURNE, IOAN LEWIS, MARK DUFFIELD.
War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence (Studies on the Nature of War),David Turton,Boydell Press,0851158692,Culture conflict,Ethnic Studies - General,Ethnic relations,History & Theory - General,International Relations - General,Peace,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Sociology - General,War,War and society,20th century,ASIA,Africa,Armed conflict,Ethnic studies,Europe,History / Modern / General,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,International institutions,Theory of warfare & military science,World history,World history: from c 1900 -
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