Kin State Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts

Kin State Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts
Author: Rajat Ganguly
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-12-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780761992721

This book examines the role of ethnic `kin states' in ethnosecessionist conflicts in South Asia using comparative case studies, both historical and contemporary. The author looks at how they respond to co-nationals across international boundaries and challenges the conventional wisdom that kin states act primarily as allies or friends. He provides a theoretical framework for understanding their role and then tests it against five major case studies to look at the differences in motives, responses, policy differences and consequences.

Blood and Borders

Blood and Borders
Author: Walter A. Kemp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Conflict management
ISBN: 9789280811964

Inter-ethnic conflict and genocide have demonstrated the dangers of failing to protect people targeted by fellow citizens. When minority groups in one country are targeted for killings or ethnic cleansing based on their group identity, whose responsibility is it to protect them? In particular, are they owed any protective responsibility by their kin state? How can cross-border kinship ties strengthen greater pan-national identity across borders without challenging territorially defined national security? As shown by the Russia-Georgia conflict over South Ossetia, unilateral intervention by a kin state can lead to conflict within and between states. The protection of national minorities should not be used as an excuse to violate state sovereignty and generate inter-state conflict. This book suggests that an answer to the kin state dilemma might come from the formula "neither intervention nor indifference" that recognizes the special bonds but proscribes armed intervention based on the ties of kinship.--Publisher's description.

Ethnic Conflict

Ethnic Conflict
Author: Rajat Ganguly
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2009-10-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Ethnic conflicts in various scales and forms are a feature of the post-Cold War international landscape from which no region of the world is completely free. In terms of impact, it has been equally devastating for both developed and developing states. Therefore, there has never been a more appropriate time to study ethnic conflict in all its dimensions. This four-volume collection examines the many facets of ethnic conflict including their causes, consequences and resolution.

Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism in South and Southeast Asia

Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism in South and Southeast Asia
Author: Rajat Ganguly
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2003-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN:

In this title, international scholars offer empirical and conceptual insights into causes of worldwide ethnic conflict and possible directions for ethnic peace. They focus on six conflicts in South and Southeast Asia and emphasise factors beyond ethnicity that perpetuate these struggles.

Foreign Interventions in Ethnic Conflicts

Foreign Interventions in Ethnic Conflicts
Author: Dr Robert Nalbandov
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1409499391

This volume analyzes the successes and failures of foreign interventions in intrastate ethnic wars. Adding value to current research in the fields of international security and conflict resolution, it adopts the unique approach of considering successes of third party actions not by durable peace established in a target country (which is the more traditional approach) but by actual fulfilment of intervention goals and objectives, because multilateral interventions are more likely to achieve success in the pursuit of their goals than unilateral actions. Robert Nalbandov takes in-depth studies of interventions in Chad, Georgia, Somalia and Rwanda and relates them to the main theories of international security - the ethnic security dilemma and the credible commitment problem - to produce a fascinating and valuable volume.

Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts

Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137078146

Interest in the study of ethnic conflict has grown over the past decade. This is partly due to its re-emergence in Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism, as well as its prolonged and violent manifestation in Sri Lanka, East Timor, Ethiopia/Eritrea, the Middle East, Corsica and the Spanish part of the Basque country. Moreover, events in Kosovo and East Timor prompted the international community to engage in controversial and often difficult peace-making and peacekeeping operations. This collection seeks to explore the issues surrounding this type of conflict. Following a theoretical introduction, recognized experts in ethnopolitics provide in-depth case studies, covering each of the major approaches to conflict management and settlement in different geographic regions. The conclusion summarizes the findings and assesses future prospects. Thus, a comprehensive picture of the state of the discipline emerges alongside an overview of current ethnic conflicts worldwide.

Ethnicity and Intra-State Conflict

Ethnicity and Intra-State Conflict
Author: HÃ¥kan Wiberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2018-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429856784

Published in 1999, this text examines domestic wars, looking at inter-state relations only in as far as they are directly relevant to understand such wars. The book aims to indicate how intra-state war differs from the inter-state war, and focuses primarily on such domestic armed conflicts that at least have significant ethnonational components. The book assesses how heterogeneous a category "ethnic conflict" is in terms of causes and consequences, and gauges the complex interplay between class, regionalism and ethnicity. It is not limited to description and causal analysis, but also attempts to assess suggestions as to what types of actors may contribute in what ways to avoiding ethnonational mobilization/polarization, avoiding militarization of manifest conflicts, and de-escalating militarized conflicts by looking for tenable generalizations on what types of approaches are fruitful in bringing about de-escalation, ceasefires, political compromises, peaceful division or peaceful integration, reconciliation.

Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts

Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts
Author: Ulrich Schneckener
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2004
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Following a theoretical introduction, experts in ethnopolitics provide in-depth case studies, covering each of the major approaches to conflict management and settlement in different geographic regions.

Coming Home to Germany?

Coming Home to Germany?
Author: David Rock
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571817181

The end of World War II led to one of the most significant forced population transfers in history: the expulsion of over 12 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 and the subsequent emigration of another four million in the second half of the twentieth century. Although unprecedented in its magnitude, conventional wisdom has it that the integration of refugees, expellees, and Aussiedler was a largely successful process in postwar Germany. While the achievements of the integration process are acknowledged, the volume also examines the difficulties encountered by ethnic Germans in the Federal Republic and analyses the shortcomings of dealing with this particular phenomenon of mass migration and its consequences.

Theory and Practice in Ethnic Conflict Management

Theory and Practice in Ethnic Conflict Management
Author: M. Ross
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1999-06-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230513085

Throughout the world there are efforts both large and small to address ethnic conflicts-identity based disputes between groups who are unable to live side-by-side in the same state. This book brings together a collection of case studies on interventions in ethnic conflicts throughout the world in which the nature of the state is a core concern (Turkey, Russia, Macedonia, Guatemala, Israel, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, South Africa, US) and asks how the projects themselves understand success and failure in ethnic conflict resolution. It emphasises the complexity and importance of better understanding ways in which small-scale interventions can sometimes have a large impact on large-scale ethnic conflict, and how the goals of the intervenors shift as the participants redefine the identities and interest at stake.