Understanding Ethnic Conflict: The International Dimension - Softcover

Taras, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321028953 ISBN 13: 9780321028952

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1998

Synopsis

Understanding Ethnic Conflict provides all the key concepts needed to understand conflict among ethnic groups. Including approaches from both comparative politics and international relations, this text offers a model of ethnic conflict’s internationalization by showing how domestic and international actors influence a country’s ethnic and sectarian divisions. Illustrating this model in five original case studies, the unique combination of theory and application inUnderstanding Ethnic Conflict facilitates more critical analysis of contemporary ethnic conflicts and the world’s response to them.

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Taras, Ray and Ganguly, Rajat, Understanding Ethnic Conflict: The International Dimension*\ The completely updated new edition of this groundbreaking book provides readers with a clear analytical framework for understanding ethnic conflicts and how they affect international relations. This book surveys theories of nationalism and ethnic conflict and tests their applicability to a number of contemporary cases. Looks at the sources of nationalist conflict in a country, each case study then ask how the international system reacted. Taken as a whole, the book examines how successful the international system has been in managing the many ethnic conflicts that erupted after the Cold War. For those interested in international relations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0321028953
• ISBN 13: 9780321028952
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304