Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

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Ethnic Conflict
Ethnic Conflict – Political Aspects
Ethnic Relations
Ethnicity – Religious Aspects
Minorities – Political Activity
Nationalism

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Chandra, Kanchan and Steven Wilkinson. 2008. “Measuring the Effect of ‘Ethnicity.’” Comparative Political Studies 41 (4/5): 515-563.

Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. 2003. “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War”. American Political Science Review. 97 (1): 75-90.

Forsberg, Erika. 2008. “Polarization and Ethnic Conflict in a Widened Strategic Setting”. Journal of Peace Research. 45 (2): 283-300.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27640654

Fox, Jonathan. 2004. “The Rise of Religious Nationalism and Conflict: Ethnic Conflict and Revolutionary Wars, 1945-2001”. Journal of Peace Research. 41 (6): 715-731.

Gagnon Jr., V.P. 1995. “Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: The Case of Serbia.” International Security. 19 (3): 130-166.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2539081

Gurr, Ted Robert. 1993. “Why Minorities Rebel: A Global Analysis of Communal Mobilization and Conflict since 1945”. International Political Science Review. 14 (2): 161-201.

Kaufmann, Chaim. 2006. “A Security Dilemma – Ethnic Partitioning in Iraq”. Harvard International Review. 28 (4): 44.

Posen, Barry. 1993. “The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict.” Survival. 35 (1): 27-47.
http://www.rochelleterman.com/ir/sites/default/files/posen-1993.pdf

Roe, Paul. 1999. “The Intrastate Security Dilemma: Ethnic Conflict as a ‘Tragedy’?” Journal of Peace Research. 36 (2): 183-202.

Roe, Paul. 2002. “Misperception and ethnic conflict: Transylvania’s societal security dilemma”. Review of International Studies. 28 (1): 57-74.

Saideman, Stephen M., David J. Lanoue, Michael Campenni, and Samuel Stanton. 2002. “Democratization, Political Institutions, and Ethnic Conflict: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis, 1985-1998”. Comparative Political Studies. 35 (1): 103-129.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238215169_Democratization_Political_Institutions_And_Ethnic_Conflict_A_Pooled_Time-Series_Analysis_1985-1998

Schneckener, Ulrich. 2002. “Making Power-Sharing Work: Lessons from Successes and Failures in Ethnic Conflict Regulation”. Journal of Peace Research. 39 (2): 203-228.

Varshney, Ashutosh. 2003. “Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Rationality.” Perspectives on Politics 1 (1): 85-99. http://bit.ly/O8Qgh0

Williams, Kristen P., and Neal G. Jesse. 2001. “Resolving Nationalist Conflicts: Promoting Overlapping Identities and Pooling Sovereignty: The 1998 Northern Irish Peace Agreement”. Political Psychology. 22 (3): 571-599.

Zürcher, Christoph. 2011. “Building Democracy While Building Peace.” Journal of Democracy. 22 (1): 81-95.

Select Books and Reports

Bromley, Michael and Urte Sonnenberg. 1998. Reporting ethnic minorities and ethnic conflict: beyond good and evil. Maastricht: European Journalism Centre. http://www.miramedia.nl/media/files/ReportingEthnicMinorities.pdf

Brown, Michael E. 2001. Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict. Revised edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Caselli, Francesco and Wilbur John Coleman II. 2011. On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict. Durham: Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~coleman/web/ethnic.pdf

Chua, Amy. 2003. World on fire: how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability. New York: Doubleday.

Diamond, Larry Jay, and Marc F. Plattner. 1994. Nationalism, ethnic conflict, and democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Esman, Milton J., and Ronald J. Herring. 2001. Carrots, sticks, and ethnic conflict: rethinking development assistance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Griffiths, Stephen Iwan. 1993. Nationalism and ethnic conflict: threats to European security. Stockholm: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Guelke, Adrian. 2004. Democracy and ethnic conflict: advancing peace in deeply divided societies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Guelke, Adrian. 2010. Approaches to the Control of Ethnic Conflict in the post-Cold War World. Belfast: Queen’s University’s Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict. http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/exceps/downloads/Ethnopolitics_Papers_No4_Guelke.pdf

Gurr, Ted Robert. 2000. People Versus States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century. Washington DC: USIP Press Books.

Gurr, Ted Robert, and Barbara Harff. 1994. Ethnic conflict in world politics. Boulder: Westview Press.

Henders, Susan J. 2004. Democratization and identity: regimes and ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books.

Horowitz, Donald L. 1985. Ethnic groups in conflict. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Hughes, James. 2010. “Genocide and Ethnic Conflict.” In Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict, edited by Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff. London: London School of Economics. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/26063/1/Genocide_and_ethnic_conflict_(LSERO_version).doc.pdf

Hughes, James, and Gwendolyn Sasse. 2002. Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict. London: Frank Cass.

Jesse, Neal G., and Kristen P. Williams. 2011. Ethnic conflict: a systematic approach to cases of conflict. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

Noel, S. J. R. 2005. From power sharing to democracy: post-conflict institutions in ethnically divided societies. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Oberschall, Anthony. 2007. Conflict and peace building in divided societies: responses to ethnic violence. London: Routledge.

Tellis, Ashley J., Thomas S. Szayna, and James A. Winnefeld. 1997. Anticipating Ethnic Conflict. Washington D.C: RAND Corporation.

United Nations Research Institute on Social Development. 1994. Conference Report: Ethnic Violence, Conflict Resolution and Cultural Pluralism. New York: UNRISD/UNDP International Seminar on Ethnic Diversity and Public Policies. http://bit.ly/NGb23O

Organizations

Accord
Amnesty International
Better World Campaign
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center on International Cooperation, New York University
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
International Crisis Behavior Project, Center for International Development and Conflict Management
International Crisis Group
School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Search for Common Ground
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute 
U.S Institute of Peace
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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