Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

by Brown, Michael E.; Cote, Owen R., Jr.; Lynn-Jones, Sean M.; Miller, Steven E.

• ISBN13: 9780262522243
• ISBN10: 0262522241
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Most of the wars of the 1990s have been complex and bloody internal conflicts driven to a significant degree by nationalism and ethnic animosity. Dozens of wars-in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, the former Soviet Union, and elsewhere-have killed or displaced millions of people. Scholars and diplomats have been frustrated in their attempts to understand and control these wars. The first part of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflictaddresses the roots of nationalist and ethnic wars, focusing in particular on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, and Kashmir. The second part of the book, which explores options for preventing and resolving such conflicts, develops proposals for international action ranging from military intervention to partition to a reconsideration of the idea of the state in Africa.

Table of Contents

The Contributors	vii	(2)
Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
Preface	xi
Michael E. Brown
PART I: THE SOURCES OF NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT	3	(232)
The Causes of Internal Conflict: An Overview	3	(23)
Michael E. Brown
Hypotheses on Nationalism and War	26	(35)
Stephen Van Evera
Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas	61	(36)
Jack Snyder
Karen Ballentine
Containing Fear: The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict	97	(35)
David Lake
Donald Rothchild
Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: The Case of Serbia	132	(37)
V. P. Gagnon
Spiraling to Ethnic War: Elites, Masses, and Moscow in Moldova's Civil War	169	(31)
Stuart Kaufman
Explaining the Kashmir Insurgency: Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay	200	(35)
Sumit Ganguly
PART II: OPTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION	235
Internal Conflict and International Action: An Overview	235	(30)
Michael E. Brown
Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars	265	(40)
Chaim Kaufmann
Refugee Flows as Grounds for International Action	305	(29)
Gil Loescher
Alan Dowty
Military Responses to Refugee Disasters	334	(40)
Barry Posen
Responding to State Failure in Africa	374	(25)
Jeffrey Herbst
Lessons of Liberia: ECOMOG and Regional Peacekeeping	399
Herbert Howe