About the Book
Taras, Ray and Ganguly, Rajat, Understanding Ethnic Conflict: The International Dimension provides the readers a plain systematic outline for identifying with ethnic conflicts and how they affect international relations. It surveys theories of nationalism and ethnic conflict and tests their applicability to a number of contemporary cases: the confident nationalism of Putin's Russia, the escalation of ethnic war in Sri Lanka, and the struggle to change the face of nationalism in the former Yugoslavia, to name just a few. After an examination the sources of nationalist conflict in a country, each case is then analyzed.
Understanding Ethnic Conflict
The world is currently assailed with a number of Ethnic conflicts. These conflicts are mainly prevalent in Asia, Africa and Europe. These have some roots in the different political and cultural systems of the region around the world. A number of writers maintain that globalization -- the spread of consumer values, democratic institutions, and capitalist enterprise -- exacerbate ethnic and culture violence. (Benjamin Barber') The common claim is that globalization upset established bonds in society, promote widespread materialism, and intensifies class differences within a society. These societal pressures as a result promote political conflict for the reason that groups that feel endangered by globalization use force to maintain their authority or their way of life. However, the basis of these conflicts can be gauged by closing examining the affected region case by case. Now, we shall deal each of the conflicting regions case by case and the background of the conflict.
The renaissance of ethnic conflict in the post-Cold War era has generated academic interest in the dynamics of this trend. Despite the fact that there is a growing body of literature on the internationalization of ethnic conflict, there is still little accord at present on the particular causes......
