| War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence Contributor(s): Turton, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0851158692 ISBN-13: 9780851158693 Publisher: Boydell Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Peace - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 355.027 |
| LCCN: 2002018628 |
| Series: Studies on the Nature of War |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.54" W x 9.58" (1.15 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |