1st Edition
Ethnic Conflict, Tribal Politics A Global Perspective
By Kenneth Christie
Copyright 1998
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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There is an urgent need for a book which combines the approaches of political science/sociology and history and particularly comparative politics with ethnic studies. There are currently many rapid and significant changes taking place in the world political map in terms of ethnic conflict. How do we explain these changes? How do we analyse them? How can we compare them? How do we make sense of the... Read more
1 Introduction: The Problem with Ethnicity and 'Tribal' Politics /Kenneth Christie -- 2 Theories of Ethnicity, Tribalism and Nationalism /Michael Freeman -- 3 Minority Nationalism or Tribal Sentiments? The Cases of Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia /Michael Keating -- 4 Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: Comparing ex-Yugoslavia, Romania and Albania /Trond Gilberg -- 5 Ethnic Conflict in China: The Case of Tibet /Denny Roy -- 6 Tribalism and Elites in a Demotic State: the Case of Sri Lanka /A. Jeyaratnam Wilson -- 7 Ethnic Conflict in Post Cold War Africa: Four Case Studies (Rwanda, Liberia, Somalia and Kwazulu-Natal) /Alexander Johnston -- 8 Tribalism and Nationalism in Turkey: Reinventing Politics /Nergis Canefe.
Biography
University of Bergen.
