Understanding ethnic conflict : the international dimension /
Taras, Ray, 1946-
Understanding ethnic conflict : the international dimension / Ray Taras, Rajat Ganguly. - Third edition - xvi, 319 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-283) and index.
Preface: Nationalism, the War on Terror, and Conflict Resolution PART I: ETHNIC CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 1. ETHNIC CONFLICT ON THE WORLD STAGE Introduction Ethnic Group, Ethnic Nation, Ethnic Nationalism Civic versus Ethnic Nationalism National Self-determination in Practice The Rise of Civic Nationalism The Basis of Ethnic Identity The Etiology of Ethnic Polarization and Conflict Modernization and Ethnic Nationalism Multiethnic States and Democratic (In)stability Resource Competition and Ethnic Nationalism Violent Ethnic Wars in the Post-Cold War Era Ancient Hatreds and Ethnic Conflict The Irredentist-Anti-Irredentist Paradigm Insecurity, Fear, and Ethnic Conflict Elites, Masses and Ethnic ConflictGlobalization and Ethnic Conflict Goals of Ethnic Political Movements The Staying Power of Ethnic Insurgency Movements Conclusion 2. ETHNIC CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL NORMSIntroduction International Norms Affecting Ethnosecession The Doctrine of Sovereignty Self-Determination and Ethnosecessionist Movements The Moral Case for SecessionThe Emerging Global Regime on Ethnic Minorities Conclusion 3. ETHNIC CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Introduction Complex Humanitarian EmergenciesInternal Displacement and RefugeesTorture, Abuse, and Mass RapeChild SoldiersState Failure and CollapseEthnoterrorismGuns-for-Drugs SyndromePartisan Intervention and Counter-Intervention in Ethnic ConflictsTypology of External Partisan InterventionReasons for Partisan External InterventionCharacteristics of Partisan External InterventionConstraints on Partisan External InterventionConsequences of Partisan External InterventionConclusion4. RESOLVING ETHNIC CONFLICTS THROUGH INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION Why Resolving Ethnic Conflicts Is Important Ethnic Conflict Resolution by International Third Parties Peacekeeping Peacemaking Peacebuilding Ethnic Conflict Resolution by the United Nations The United Nations as a Peacekeeper The United Nations as a Peacemaker The United Nations as a Peacebuilder States as Third Parties in Ethnic Conflict Resolution Major Powers and Ethnic Conflict Resolution Ethnic Conflict Resolution by Third-World Regional Powers Regional Organizations as Third Parties in Ethnic Conflict Resolution International Nongovernmental Organizations as Third Parties in Ethnic Conflict Resolution Conclusion PART II: CASE STUDIES 5. NATIONALISM AND THE COLLAPSE OF AN EMPIRE: THE SOVIET UNION, RUSSIA, AND CHECHNYAThe Breakdown of Empires Why Did Ethnic Conflict Occur? Soviet Imperialism and Great Russian Nationalism Democratization as a Source of Ethnic Conflict The Conflict of Identities Nationalist Mobilization in Post-Soviet Russia The Core Ideas of Russian Nationalism Russian Nationalists Resurgent Russia's New Minorities Russia and Chechnya Chechen Ethnosecessionism International Reaction Noninternationalization of the Chechen Conflict Third-party Mediation in Chechnya Conclusion 6. SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES: CANADAAND QUEBECNATIONALISM Introduction Why Has Ethnic Conflict Occurred? Sources of Quebec Nationalism British Colonization Confederation Economic Stagnation Conscription Crises Disputed Borders Society in Transformation The Quiet Revolution Quebec's Exclusion from the Canadian Constitution The Failure to Bring Quebec Back in The Growth of the Sovereignty Movement The Canadian Supreme Court on Secession Why Peaceful Secession Is Rare International Reaction Can a Constitutional Dispute Be Internationalized? Is External Mediation Possible in Canada? 7. PROTRACTED ETHNIC WARS: THE TAMIL-SINHALESE CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA Introduction Why Did Ethnic Conflict Occur? Internationalization of the Ethnic WarIndia's Attempt at Conflict ResolutionThe Ethnic Civil War in the 1990sThe Start of the Norway-Facilitated Peace ProcessPeace NegotiationsSuspension of the TalksPolitical Turmoil and its Impact on Peace TalksProspects for a Negotiated Peace8. WEAKSTATESAND ETHNIC CONFLICT: SECESSIONISM AND STATE COLLAPSE IN AFRICA Introduction Weak States Secessionism in Ethiopia The Colonial Legacy Pan-Africanism and Pan-Ethiopianism Ethiopia's Collapse, Eritrea's Independence Internationalization and External Mediation Weak States, Politicized Identities in Central Africa The Colonial Legacy and Hutu-Tutsi RivalryInternationalization and External MediationKeeping the State Strong: South AfricaTransition from ApartheidEthnicity, State-building, and the International SystemConclusion 9. WESTERN MILITARY INTERVENTION AND ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS: IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, AND YUGOSLAVIA Introduction The U.S. Occupation of IraqToppling a Dictator, Creating a Weak StateThe Increased Salience of Ethnoreligious CleavagesEnding Afghanistan's Wars Through InterventionEthnicity, Warlords, and Internal ConflictInternational Intervention and Peacekeeping after the Taliban Wars in a Disintegrating YugoslaviaInternational PrevaricationThird-party Intervention and PeacekeepingConclusion 10: U.S.FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONALISM: TO INTERVENE OR NOT TO INTERVENE? Studying Post-Cold War Policymaking Rationales for U.S. Interventions Promoting Liberal Internationalism Preempting Security ThreatsActivism to Promote IntegrationThe Backlash to U.S. Unilateralism Conclusion
0321364805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Ethnic conflict--Political aspects.
Ethnic conflict--International cooperation.
World politics.
Nationalism.
Conflict management--Political aspects.
Conflict management--International cooperation.
305.8 / T.R.U
Understanding ethnic conflict : the international dimension / Ray Taras, Rajat Ganguly. - Third edition - xvi, 319 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-283) and index.
Preface: Nationalism, the War on Terror, and Conflict Resolution PART I: ETHNIC CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 1. ETHNIC CONFLICT ON THE WORLD STAGE Introduction Ethnic Group, Ethnic Nation, Ethnic Nationalism Civic versus Ethnic Nationalism National Self-determination in Practice The Rise of Civic Nationalism The Basis of Ethnic Identity The Etiology of Ethnic Polarization and Conflict Modernization and Ethnic Nationalism Multiethnic States and Democratic (In)stability Resource Competition and Ethnic Nationalism Violent Ethnic Wars in the Post-Cold War Era Ancient Hatreds and Ethnic Conflict The Irredentist-Anti-Irredentist Paradigm Insecurity, Fear, and Ethnic Conflict Elites, Masses and Ethnic ConflictGlobalization and Ethnic Conflict Goals of Ethnic Political Movements The Staying Power of Ethnic Insurgency Movements Conclusion 2. ETHNIC CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL NORMSIntroduction International Norms Affecting Ethnosecession The Doctrine of Sovereignty Self-Determination and Ethnosecessionist Movements The Moral Case for SecessionThe Emerging Global Regime on Ethnic Minorities Conclusion 3. ETHNIC CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Introduction Complex Humanitarian EmergenciesInternal Displacement and RefugeesTorture, Abuse, and Mass RapeChild SoldiersState Failure and CollapseEthnoterrorismGuns-for-Drugs SyndromePartisan Intervention and Counter-Intervention in Ethnic ConflictsTypology of External Partisan InterventionReasons for Partisan External InterventionCharacteristics of Partisan External InterventionConstraints on Partisan External InterventionConsequences of Partisan External InterventionConclusion4. RESOLVING ETHNIC CONFLICTS THROUGH INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION Why Resolving Ethnic Conflicts Is Important Ethnic Conflict Resolution by International Third Parties Peacekeeping Peacemaking Peacebuilding Ethnic Conflict Resolution by the United Nations The United Nations as a Peacekeeper The United Nations as a Peacemaker The United Nations as a Peacebuilder States as Third Parties in Ethnic Conflict Resolution Major Powers and Ethnic Conflict Resolution Ethnic Conflict Resolution by Third-World Regional Powers Regional Organizations as Third Parties in Ethnic Conflict Resolution International Nongovernmental Organizations as Third Parties in Ethnic Conflict Resolution Conclusion PART II: CASE STUDIES 5. NATIONALISM AND THE COLLAPSE OF AN EMPIRE: THE SOVIET UNION, RUSSIA, AND CHECHNYAThe Breakdown of Empires Why Did Ethnic Conflict Occur? Soviet Imperialism and Great Russian Nationalism Democratization as a Source of Ethnic Conflict The Conflict of Identities Nationalist Mobilization in Post-Soviet Russia The Core Ideas of Russian Nationalism Russian Nationalists Resurgent Russia's New Minorities Russia and Chechnya Chechen Ethnosecessionism International Reaction Noninternationalization of the Chechen Conflict Third-party Mediation in Chechnya Conclusion 6. SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES: CANADAAND QUEBECNATIONALISM Introduction Why Has Ethnic Conflict Occurred? Sources of Quebec Nationalism British Colonization Confederation Economic Stagnation Conscription Crises Disputed Borders Society in Transformation The Quiet Revolution Quebec's Exclusion from the Canadian Constitution The Failure to Bring Quebec Back in The Growth of the Sovereignty Movement The Canadian Supreme Court on Secession Why Peaceful Secession Is Rare International Reaction Can a Constitutional Dispute Be Internationalized? Is External Mediation Possible in Canada? 7. PROTRACTED ETHNIC WARS: THE TAMIL-SINHALESE CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA Introduction Why Did Ethnic Conflict Occur? Internationalization of the Ethnic WarIndia's Attempt at Conflict ResolutionThe Ethnic Civil War in the 1990sThe Start of the Norway-Facilitated Peace ProcessPeace NegotiationsSuspension of the TalksPolitical Turmoil and its Impact on Peace TalksProspects for a Negotiated Peace8. WEAKSTATESAND ETHNIC CONFLICT: SECESSIONISM AND STATE COLLAPSE IN AFRICA Introduction Weak States Secessionism in Ethiopia The Colonial Legacy Pan-Africanism and Pan-Ethiopianism Ethiopia's Collapse, Eritrea's Independence Internationalization and External Mediation Weak States, Politicized Identities in Central Africa The Colonial Legacy and Hutu-Tutsi RivalryInternationalization and External MediationKeeping the State Strong: South AfricaTransition from ApartheidEthnicity, State-building, and the International SystemConclusion 9. WESTERN MILITARY INTERVENTION AND ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS: IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, AND YUGOSLAVIA Introduction The U.S. Occupation of IraqToppling a Dictator, Creating a Weak StateThe Increased Salience of Ethnoreligious CleavagesEnding Afghanistan's Wars Through InterventionEthnicity, Warlords, and Internal ConflictInternational Intervention and Peacekeeping after the Taliban Wars in a Disintegrating YugoslaviaInternational PrevaricationThird-party Intervention and PeacekeepingConclusion 10: U.S.FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONALISM: TO INTERVENE OR NOT TO INTERVENE? Studying Post-Cold War Policymaking Rationales for U.S. Interventions Promoting Liberal Internationalism Preempting Security ThreatsActivism to Promote IntegrationThe Backlash to U.S. Unilateralism Conclusion
0321364805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Ethnic conflict--Political aspects.
Ethnic conflict--International cooperation.
World politics.
Nationalism.
Conflict management--Political aspects.
Conflict management--International cooperation.
305.8 / T.R.U