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Understanding Ethnic Conflict provides all the key concepts needed to understand conflict among ethnic groups. Including approaches from both comparative politics and international relations, this text offers a model of ethnic conflict's internationalization by showing how domestic and international actors influence a country's ethnic and sectarian divisions. Illustrating this model in five original case studies, the unique combination of theory and application in Understanding Ethnic Conflict facilitates more critical analysis of contemporary ethnic conflicts and the world's response to them.

PurposeThis themed issue seeks to gather together several papers on the topic of managing ethnic conflicts. This introduction summarizes these papers.Design/methodology/approachThis introduction gives an overview of the purpose of the themed issue and then summarizes each of the articles. It also provides recommendations for future research.FindingsThe papers and research recommendations involve theoretical, methodological, and statistical issues. A key to understanding success in publishing research in this area is that researchers should use theories, methods, and statistics that match.Originality/valueThis unique themed issue illustrates how ethnic issues are important in understanding conflict management. These articles illustrate how it is particularly important to understand the differences in conflict styles and also the means and methods of participation of constituents and third parties in the field of ethnic conflict management.

This updated and revised edition of Referendums and Ethnic Conflict features recent referendums, including Scotland (2014), Catalonia (2017), and the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom (2016), among others, through 2020. The book's political framework also addresses new developments such as identity politics, social media, and populism.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Theories of Third-party Intervention -- 2 Quantitative Analysis of Foreign Interventions in Ethnic Conflicts -- 3 Chad (1966-1987): Muscling in for Control -- 4 Georgia (1992-1994): Intervening for the Sake of Intervention -- 5 Somalia (1991-1994): When Force Fails -- 6 Rwanda (1990-1996): Success during Genocide -- 7 A Successful Intervention: When, Where and How -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Ethnic conflicts in Southeast Asia -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia: Causes and the Quest for Solution -- 2. Ethnic Conflict, Prevention and Management: The Malaysian Case -- 3. Dreams and Nightmares: State Building and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar (Burma) -- 4. The Moro and the Cordillera Conflicts in the Philippines and the Struggle for Autonomy -- 5. The Thai State and Ethnic Minorities: From Assimilation to Selective Integration -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Ethnic conflict often focuses on culturally charged symbols and rituals that evoke strong emotions from all sides. Marc Howard Ross examines battles over diverse cultural expressions, including Islamic headscarves in France, parades in Northern Ireland, holy sites in Jerusalem and Confederate flags in the American South to propose a psychocultural framework for understanding ethnic conflict, as well as barriers to, and opportunities for, its mitigation. His analysis explores how culture frames interests, structures demand-making and shapes how opponents can find common ground to produce constructive outcomes to long-term disputes. He focuses on participants' accounts of conflict to identify emotionally significant issues, and the power of cultural expressions to link individuals to larger identities and shape action. Ross shows that, contrary to popular belief, culture does not necessarily exacerbate conflict; rather, the constructed nature of psychocultural narratives can facilitate successful conflict mitigation through the development of more inclusive narratives and identities

ETHNIC CONFLICTS AND GLOBAL INTERVENTIONS -- ETHNIC CONFLICTS AND GLOBAL INTERVENTIONS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE TECHNOLOGICAL RATIONALE IN THE NEW AGE OF GLOBALIZATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY -- THE ORDER OF THINGS -- Background -- How the 2011 Revolution Is Typically Explained -- Rethinking 2011 -- The Restoration -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 CRISIS URBANIZATION AND EMPTY SPACES: THE SPATIAL ASPECTS OF ETHNIC CONFLICTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION

Twenty years since the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region first began, 610,000 people are still internally displaced in Azerbaijan, living in poverty and in wretched housing conditions. The causes of violence in the ongoing ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which began in the late 1980s and has since resulted in 30,000 deaths, can mainly be analyzed using a constructivist framework. However, elements of a primordialist approach to national identity were also used by mobilizers totrigger political and social uprisings. This paper presupposes that the constructivist theories on identity formation and territorial claims offer a better explanation as to why the war over Nagorno-Karabakh broke out in the 1990s, and why, in 2010, the two parties are no closer to a resolution and the Nagorno-Karabakh region remains in limbo.

In 1989 it was triumphantly announced that the world had arrived at the "End of History" with neoliberal economics and political democracy the clear victors. This paper revisits and reconsiders this famous assertion through an examination of several perspectives on the relationship between neoliberal economic policies and ethnic conflict. It concludes that these phenomena may be causally related, with the former contributing materially to the latter. JEL Codes: N40, O10, P16

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ethnic Claims and International Law / Wippman, David -- Part I. Ethno-Nationalism and Legal Theory -- 1. The International Law of Nationalism: Group Identity and Legal History / Berman, Nathaniel -- 2. The Institutional and Instrumental Value of Nationalism / Brilmayer, Lea -- 3. Ethnicity, Human Rights, and Self-Determination / Tesόn, Fernando R. -- 4. Ethnic Conflict and Territorial Claims: Where Do We Draw a Line? / Ratner, Steven R. -- 5. Pushing the Limits of the Liberal Peace: Ethnic Conflict and the "Ideal Polity" / Slaughter, Anne-Marie -- Part II. Institutional and Policy Responses to Ethnic Conflict -- 6. U.N. Engagement in Ethnic Conflicts / Scheffer, David J. -- 7. Mobilizing International and Regional Organizations for Managing Ethnic Conflict / Handler Chayes, Antonia / Chayes, Abram -- 8. Practical and Legal Constraints on Internal Power Sharing / Wippman, David -- 9. Limiting the Use of Force in Civil Disputes / Wedgwood, Ruth -- 10. Genocide and Ethnic Conflict / Fisler Damrosch, Lori -- 11. Temporary Protection of a Persecuted People / Platzer, Michael -- 12. Citizenship and National Identity / Orentlicher, Diane F. -- Conclusion: What Do International Lawyers Do When They Talk about Ethnic Violence and Why Does It Matter? / Farer, Tom -- Index