Ethnic Conflict A Global Perspective
by Wolff, StefanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-07-26
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Why do people keep killing each other, and what can we do about it? Stefan Wolff delves into the horror of ethnic conflict around the world to document the atrocities, understand the root causes, and offer potential solutions. This book takes the reader into the heart of conflicts in Africa, Europe, and Asia to examine a phenomenon which alongside terrorism represents one of the dominant forces in modern international politics. Now issued in paperback for the first time, this edition has been updated to include a new preface by the author and a useful new guide to further reading. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Stefan Wolff is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham , Visiting Professorial Lecturer at SAIS Bologna Center, and Senior Non-resident Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. He editor of the journal Ethnopolitics and and the author of Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict, The German Question, and other books.
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | p. xv |
| Maps | p. xvii |
| Introduction. Ethnopolitics: Conflict versus cooperation | p. 1 |
| The human dimension: Facts, figures, and stories of ethnic conflict | p. 9 |
| Ethnicity and nationalism | p. 25 |
| What causes ethnic conflicts? | p. 58 |
| Who fights in ethnic conflicts and how? | p. 89 |
| Managing and settling ethnic conflicts | p. 123 |
| Post-conflict reconstruction | p. 155 |
| The future of ethnic conflict: Possibilities and probabilities | p. 188 |
| Endnotes | p. 208 |
| Index | p. 231 |
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