Table of Contents

1. Introduction: A World in Conflict Vassilis K. Fouskas; 2. Articulating Evil Andrew Wheatcroft; 3. Modern Conflicts in Latin America Jairo Lugo; 4. Africa, a Continent of Conflicts Phia Steyn; 5. Ethnic Conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia Emmanuel Karagiannis; 6. South Asia: Kashmir and Sri-Lanka Rajat Ganguly; 7. South-East Asia: Decolonization, Modernization, Nationalism and State-Building Yoke-Lian Lee and Roger Buckley; 8. The Arab-Israeli Conflict Rory Miller; 9. The Northern Ireland Conflict John Doyle; 10. Yugoslavia: The Failure of a Success Stevan K. Pavlowitch; 11. Placing Serbia in Context Peter Gowan; 12. Iraq and meta-conflict Vassilis K. Fouskas; A to Z Glossary; Bibliography; Maps.