Synopses & Reviews
The turmoil in Yugoslavia, the rebellions of the Kurds and Shi is in Iraq, the ongoing struggle in South Africa ethnic conflict continues unabated in many areas of the world.To help us understand the persistence of such conflict, this pioneering work analyzes ethnopolitical conflict in every region of the globe. An ambitious and unprecedented effort, it provides a comprehensive survey of 233 politically active communal groups, plus in-depth assessments of ethnic tensions in the western democracies, the former Soviet bloc, the Middle East, and Africa.By identifying these groups and examining their disadvantages and grievances, Minorities at Risk attempts to explain why disadvantaged groups mobilize, and it evaluates strategies that have successfully reduced ethnic conflict in the past, including autonomy, pluralism, and power sharing.This provocative and well-written volume challenges conventional wisdom and raises the discussion about a widespread but little-understood phenomenon to a higher level.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-404) and index.
Table of Contents
Identifying communal groups -- The status of minorities at risk: inequalities and discrimination -- "Give us the means to the future": the mobilization of grievance -- When minorities rebel: patterns and trends in ethnopolitical conflict, 1945-89 -- Why minorities rebel: explaining ethnopolitical protest and rebellion -- Minorities in the Western democracies and Japan -- States at risk: ethnopolitics in the multinational states of Eastern Europe / Monty G. Marshall -- Minorities, rebellion, and repression in North Africa and the Middle East / Barbara Harff -- Communal conflict and contention for power in Africa south of the Sahara / James R. Scarritt -- Settling ethnopolitical conflicts.