1st Edition
Contentious Identities Ethnic, Religious and National Conflicts in Today's World
By Daniel Chirot
Copyright 2011
78 Pages
by
Routledge
78 Pages
by
Routledge
78 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes widespread global ethnic conflicts that tear asunder nations and regions, such as the former Yugoslavia. Dan Chirot casts his analysis in a discussion of the conflict between national and ethnic identity, discovering that ethnic identity, rooted in centuries of tradition and habit, often trumps national identity, which may be of more recent gestation and have a weaker hold on... Read more
1. From Family and Tribe to Modern Nation-State 2. Majority-Minority Problems in Modern States and Nations and Strategies for Dealing with Them 3. War or Peace? The Range of Possible Ethnic and Other Identity Conflicts 4. Causes of Increasing or Decreasing Conflicts 5. Genocides: The Extreme Cases of Ethnic and Religious Conflicts 6. Contemporary Dangers and Opportunities
Biography
Daniel Chirot is Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. His books have been about genocide, ethnic conflicts, tyranny, social change, and Eastern Europe. He has consulted for NGOs, most recently for CARE in Africa. He has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a Senior Fellowship at the United States Institute of Peace.
