Ethnic Conflict in World Politics
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Book Description
Documents the decline of ethnic conflict in most world regions and discusses the growth of international responsibilities for anticipating and responding to ethnic conflict and humanitarian disasters. This second edition of Ethnic Conflict in World Politics is an introduction to a new era in which civil society, states, and international actors attempt to channel ethnic challenges to world order and security into conventional politics. From Africa's post-colonial rebellions in the 1960s and 1970s to anti-immigrant violence in the 1990s the authors survey the historical, geographic, and cultural diversity of ethnopolitical conflict. Using an analytical model to elucidate four well-chosen case studies-the Kurds, the Miskitos, the Chinese in Malaysia, and the Turks in Germany-the authors give students tools for analyzing emerging conflicts based on the demands of nationalists, indigenous peoples, and immigrant minorities throughout the world. The international community has begun to respond more quickly and constructively to these conflicts than it did to civil wars in divided Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda by using the emerging doctrines of proactive peacemaking and peace enforcement that are detailed in this book. Concludes by identifying five principles of international doctrine for managing conflict in ethnically diverse societies. The text is illustrated with maps, tables, and figures.
About the Author
Barbara Harff is professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy. She received her Ph.D from Northwestern University in 1981. Her writings on the international and comparative dimensions of massive human rights violations explore the connections between ethnic conflict and genocide, and analyze international responsibilities for restraining violence within states. In fall 2003, she is Strassler Distinguished Visiting Professor at Clark University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Ted Robert Gurr is Distinguished Professor at University of Maryland. He is an internationally known authority on the causes and management of political violence and ethnic conflict. In 1985 he founded the Minorities at Risk project which tracks the status and conflicts of nearly 300 politically active ethnic groups throughout the world. He has been president of the International Studies Association and Olaf Palme Visiting Professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Barbara Harff and Ted Robert Gurr have both been senior consultants to the U.S. government's State Failure Task Force, established in 1994 to do empirical research on foreign policy issues including ethnic conflict and early warning of genocide.
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