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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

Recently, ethnicity has received greater attention from international conflict scholars. This study explores a new aspect of how ethnic composition of states and the power of ethnic kin affect external state interventions in ethnic conflicts. Here it is hypothesized that states with dominant ethnic groups but still-significant ethnic minorities are expected to be more prone to intervention in ethnic conflict than states without one of these two characteristics. A new measure is proposed to capture such variation in ethnic composition more precisely. Looking at large-N panel data, it is found that ethnically fractionalized states with dominant ethnic groups are indeed the most likely to intervene in ethnic conflicts. Additionally, the power of the embattled ethnic kin minority, as determined by its settlement patterns in the host state, also increases the likelihood of intervention. Traditional variables like proximity and capability retain statistical significance. However,ethnic variables have the strongest effects on interventions in ethnic conflict. (International Interventions/ FUB 2010)

This volume analyzes the successes and failures of foreign interventions in intrastate ethnic wars. It considers successes of third party actions by actual fulfilment of the goals and objectives of multilateral intervention. Taking in-depth studies of interventions in Chad, Georgia, Somalia and Rwanda and relating them to the main theories of international security, the author has produced a fascinating and valuable volume.

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

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. Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v6i1.208

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

Since 1989, the U.S. military has been in- volved in a number of intrastate conflicts integrally related to ethnicity. These eth- nic conflicts have been devastating to those involved; the conflicts contributed to regional destabilization; and they have been assumed to breed international ter- rorism. Most saliently, they have virtually destroyed the hope of peace benefits that were predicted to accrue at the end of the Cold War.