Ethnopolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions

by Chirot, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781557987372
• ISBN10: 1557987378
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Summary

Why does ethnopolitical conflict sometimes lead to genocide and other times to peace? In this volume, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and historians examine over a dozen international cases to try to understand what causes a society's ethnic conflicts to escalate or deescalate. This unique book contains cogent critiques of the political and historical antecedents to conflict around the world, combining them with psychological analyses of group identity and intergroup conflict.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
I. Theories of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict	1	(48)
Introduction	3	(24)
Daniel Chirot
Ethnicity: Nice, Nasty, and Nihilistic	27	(10)
Ken Jowitt
Nationalism and Ethnicity: Research Agendas on Theories of Their Sources and Their Regulation	37	(12)
Brendan O'Leary
II. Genocides	49	(68)
Theories of the Holocaust: Trying to Explain the Unimaginable	51	(20)
Peter Suedfeld
Armenian Deportations and Massacres in 1915	71	(12)
Fikret Adanir
The Ethnic Element in the Cambodian Genocide	83	(10)
Ben Kiernan
Approaches to Measuring Genocide: Excess Mortality During the Khmer Rouge Period	93	(16)
Patrick Heuveline
Genocide in Rwanda	109	(8)
Gerard Prunier
III. Major Ethnopolitical Warfare That Stopped Short of Genocide	117	(86)
From Ethnic Cooperation to Violence and War in Yugoslavia	119	(32)
Anthony Oberschall
The Yugoslav Catastrophe	151	(12)
Misha Glenny
Kurds in Turkey: A Nationalist Movement in the Making	163	(16)
Resat Kasaba
Explaining the Long Peace: War in Latin America	179	(24)
Miguel Angel Centeno
IV. Limited, Contained, and Partly Resolved Ethnopolitical Warfare	203	(84)
The Northern Ireland Conflict: Prospects and Possibilities	205	(10)
Tony Gallagher
Control and the Stability of Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel	215	(20)
Ian S. Lustick
Who Pays for Peace? Implications of the Negotiated Settlement in a Post-Apartheid South Africa	235	(24)
Brandon Hamber
The Accommodation of Cultural Diversity in Tanzania	259	(16)
Aili Mari Tripp
Crawford Young
Why Has There Been No Race War in the American South?	275	(12)
John Shelton Reed
V. The Social Psychology of Ethnopolitical Warfare and Psychology's Contributions to the Solutions	287	(76)
Ethnopolitical and Other Group Violence: Origins and Prevention	289	(16)
Ervin Staub
Psychosocial Assistance During Ethnopolitical Warfare in the Former Yugoslavia	305	(14)
Inger Agger
Social Psychology and Intergroup Conflict	319	(24)
Miles Hewstone
Ed Cairns
The Psychology of Group Identification and the Power of Ethnic Nationalism	343	(20)
Clark McCauley
Author Index	363	(8)
Subject Index	371	(8)
About the Editors	379