Peoples Versus States : Minorities at Risk in the New Century,9781929223022

Peoples Versus States : Minorities at Risk in the New Century

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ISBN13: 9781929223022
ISBN10: 1929223021
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher(s): United States Inst of Peace Pr
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Summary

Picking where Minorities at up Risk left off, Peoples versus States offers an expanded and updated perspective on ethnic and nationalist conflict throughout the world, as well as efforts to manage it. Gurr surveys the behavior of 275 politically active ethnic groups during the 1990s and pinpoints the Factors that encourage the assertion of ethnic identities.

Author Biography

Ted Robert Gurr is distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Richard H. Solomon
Preface xiii
The Ethnic Basis of Political Action in the 1980s and 1990s
3(24)
Turks in Germany: From Guest Workers to Ethnoclass
21(6)
Ted Robert Gurr
Long War, Short Peace: The Rise and Decline of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the End of the Cold War
27(38)
The ``Russian Minority'' in Ukraine
57(8)
Marion Recktenwald
The Etiology of Ethnopolitical Conflict
65(40)
Indigenous Peoples of Amazonian Ecuador: A Little Help from Their Friends
96(4)
Pamela L. Burke
Afro-Brazilians: Poverty without Protest
100(5)
Pamela L. Burke
Ted Robert Gurr
Incentives for Ethnopolitical Conflict: World Patterns of Discrimination and Repression in the 1990s
105(46)
Chinese in Malaysia: Balancing Communal Inequalities
133(5)
Deepa Khosla
The Copts in Egypt: A Christian Minority in an Islamic Society
138(5)
Jonathan Fox
The Roma in the Postcommunist Era
143(8)
Jonathan Fox
Betty Brown
Democratic Governance and Strategies of Accommodation in Plural Societies
151(44)
The Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia: Mobilization and Empowerment in the 1990s
178(5)
Ted Robert Gurr
Pamela L. Burke
Hungarians in Slovakia: The Last Stage of Communism Is Nationalism
183(5)
Beata Kovacs Nas
Burundi in the 1990s: From Democratization to Communal War
188(7)
Michael Dravis
The Challenge of Resolving Ethnonational Conflicts
195(28)
Tibetans: Dim Prospects for Settling a Protracted Ethnonational Conflict
212(6)
Deepa Khosla
The Gagauz of Moldova: Settling an Ethnonational Rebellion
218(5)
Ted Robert Gurr
Michael L. Haxton
Assessing Risks of Future Ethnic Wars
223(52)
Ted Robert Gurr
Monty G. Marshall
Political Rivalries and Communal Vengeance in Kenya
261(5)
Anne Pitsch
Muslims in India and the Rise of Hindu Communalism
266(9)
Mizan Khan
Ted Robert Gurr
Conclusions: Managing Conflict in Heterogeneous Societies
275(68)
Appendixes
A. Classification of Countries by Regime Type in the Late 1990s
289(6)
B. The Analytic Basis of Risk Assessments
295(16)
Ted Robert Gurr
Monty G. Marshall
C. Additional Groups for the Minorities at Risk Study
311(10)
Deepa Khosla
D. Background Characteristics of Ethnopolitical Groups and Risk of Rebellion
321(16)
Anne Pitsch
E. Estimating 1990s Populations of Groups in the Minorities at Risk Study
337(6)
Ted Robert Gurr
Marion Recktenwald
Notes 343(32)
Index 375

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