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Taras, Ray and Ganguly, Rajat, Understanding Ethnic Conflict: The International Dimension*\ The completely updated new edition of this groundbreaking book provides readers with a clear analytical framework for understanding ethnic conflicts and how they affect international relations. This book surveys theories of nationalism and ethnic conflict and tests their applicability to a number of contemporary cases. Looks at the sources of nationalist conflict in a country, each case study then ask how the international system reacted. Taken as a whole, the book examines how successful the international system has been in managing the many ethnic conflicts that erupted after the Cold War. For those interested in international relations.
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Born and educated in Montreal, Raymond Taras began publishing scholarly books in the 1980s. Since then he has authored or edited close to twenty books--on the collapse of the USSR, the rise of liberal and illiberal nationalisms, the internationalization of ethnic conflicts, and the menace of xenophobia in Europe. He has served on the faculty of universities in North America and Europe including Harvard, Stanford, the European University Institute, and Malmö University where he has been Willy Brandt Professor. He lives and teaches in New Orleans and spends part of the year in Salt Lake City. Interests include world literature, the Sundance film festival, skiing, and border collies.
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By Pokpong Lawansiri (Omaha, NE USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Understanding Ethnic Conflict: The International Dimension (Paperback)
In "Understanding Ethnic Conflict", Taras and Ganguly talked about the cost of ethnic conflicts in the world. He emphasized on four major points: the cause of ethnic conflict, how does the international organizations react to it, why some ethnic conflicts become internationalized, and what can be done about the conflicts. The authors tended to give different answers accordingly to different conflicts. They claimed that not all conflicts are similar and not all conflicts can be applied to just Taras and Ganguly also emphasized that one conflict drew international attention while others do not. For example, the conflict in Chechnya does not draw international attention because there are no interests for other states to risk being involved. But the Yugoslavia conflict drew attentions from international community because the two sides The writers also emphasized how important the third parties are to solving the ethnic conflict. The international organization such as the United Nations, major powers, regional powers, and international governmental organizations should be involved in
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