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Korean migrations to and within China -- Ethnicity or nationality? : Korean identities in China -- South Korean and Korean Chinese business relations in China -- Korean business, intra-ethnic conflict, and adaptive strategies -- Relations between Korean Chinese and South Koreans in the service sector -- Community networks and activities

If labour migration increases the potential for interstate conflicts, does the economic interdependence thus created make such conflicts easier to address, given the economic gains to both sides from such labour movements? This article addresses this question by using the concepts of economic security and interdependence to compare the Malaysia-Philippines and Malaysia-Indonesia conflicts over labour migration. Although the limited cases make generalizations difficult, the analysis suggests that the economic interdependence constraint on conflict escalation may not always work well as it may be offset by national security concerns in the labour receiving states about the illegal migrant workers and by the shifting economic underpinnings of economic security. The theoretically pacifying effect of interdependence can also be weakened by preventing the 'aggrieved country' from articulating clearer demands from the other side for fear of jeopardizing the economic gains from the migrant outflows. Comparing the two conflicts suggests that clearly articulated demands matched by effective state capacity in translating those demands into actions on the ground can help in conflict management. The potential for the migrant worker issue to evoke deep emotions and the ease with which that can translate into nationalist outpourings mean that both sending and receiving countries must develop bilateral or regional frameworks that outline clear best practice standards for the treatment of migrant workers, including during detention and repatriation. (Pac Rev/GIGA)

Conflict in primate society / S.L. Washburn -- Resolution of social conflict in animals and man / M.R.A. Chance -- Role of conflict in human evolution -- Conflict, dominance and exploitation in human systems of social segregation : some theoretical perspectives from the study of personality in culture / George De Vos -- Intra-personal conflict and the authoritarian character / H.V. Dicks -- The authoritarian character in war -- Conflict in formal organizations / J.A.A. van Doorn -- Patterns of conflict in social groups -- Conflict in cities / Ruth Glass -- Role of cities in social unrest -- Nationalism as a source of aggression / Z. Barbu -- Internal conflict and overt aggression -- Conflict and leadership : the process of decision and the nature of authority / Harold D. Lasswell -- Objective appraisal of conflict -- Conflict management as a learning process / K.E. Boulding -- Regulation of conflict -- Models of conflict : cataclysmic and strategic / Anatol Rapoport -- Strategic thinking and state interests -- Power and communication in international society / Karl W. Deutsch -- Compliance in modern society -- The role of law in conflict resolution / B.V.A. Röling -- External and internal sources of international tension / Karol Lapter -- Conflict as a function of change / J.W. Burton -- International aspects of conflict

"This book addresses the challenges of international intervention in violent conflicts and its impact on groups in conflict. When the international community intervenes in a violent internal conflict, intervening powers may harden divisions, constructing walls between groups, or they may foster transformation, soften barriers and build bridges between conflicting groups. This book examines the different types of external processes and their respective contributions to softening or hardening divisions between conflicting groups. It also analyses the types of conflict resolution strategies, including integration, accommodation and partitioning, and investigates the conditions under which the international community decides to pursue a particular strategy, and how the different strategies contribute to solidification or transformation of group identities."--

Huntington's clash of civilizations thesis considers interstate and intrastate conflicts between groups of different civilizations to be more frequent, longer, and more violent than conflicts within civilizations. The clash of civilizations should be the principal issue in world politics after the end of the Cold War, and it should especially shape the relationship between the West and Islam. This article examines Huntington's hypotheses on the basis of a dataset derived from the Uppsala Conflict Data Project. A new research design uses conflict-years in order to deal with conflicts both between and within states. It also tries to find the 'core' intercivilizational conflicts. The analyses distinguish three periods after World War II, and each of them is characterized by a higher number of intercivilizational conflict-years than the previous one. There are two points of transition, in the 1960s and 1980s, but the trends in the clash of civilizations seem to be unaffected by the end of the Cold War. The relationship between civilizational difference and duration of conflict is not statistically significant. Conflicts within civilizations are less likely to escalate into war during the post-Cold War period than during the Cold War period, while the intensity of conflicts between civilizations remains as high as in the Cold War. The majority of intercivilizational conflict-years during the post-Cold War period have involved Islamic groups. Nevertheless, the frequency of conflict between the Islamic and Sinic (Confucian) civilizations and the West remains marginal.

Papers presented at a seminar held under the auspices of the School of International Relations and Strategic Studies, Jadavpur University, during 21-22 Mar. 1997