Description
Book Synopsis Nation states and minorities resort more and more to violence when safeguarding their political interests. Although the violence in the Middle East has been dominating world politics for some time now, European governments have had their share of ethnic violence to contend with as this volume demonstrates. And as the case studies show, ranging as they do from the Basque Country to Chechnya, from Northern Ireland to Bosnia-Herzegovina, this applies to western Europe as much as to eastern Europe. However, in contrast to other parts of the world, instances where political struggles for power and social inclusion between minorities and majorities lead to full-fledged inter-ethnic warfare are still the exception; in the majority of cases conflicts are successfully de-escalated and even resolved. In a comprehensive conclusion, the volume offers a theoretical framework for the development of strategies to deal with violent ethnic conflict.
Trade Review “In particular, in German-speaking Europe there is a lot of expertise on ethnic tensions in Central and Eastern Europe…as this book testifies. The chapters are well written and can be read as separate pieces…They are of a high quality.” • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Table of Contents Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Stefan Troebst and Farimah Daftary
PART I: COMPARISONS
Chapter 1. Regionalism in Western Europe
Peter Alter
Chapter 2. Conflicts Between East European States and Minorities in an Age of Democracy
Tom Gallagher
PART II: CASE STUDIES
Chapter 3. Ethnoradicalism as a Mirror Image of State Centralisation: the Basque Paradigm in Franco’s Spain
Daniele Conversi
Chapter 4. Chechnya and the Caucasus
Helen Krag
Chapter 5.
Adrian Guelke
Chapter 6. Explaining Ethnic Violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Marie-Janine Calic
PART III: LESSONS
Chapter 7. The Use of Force in Minority – Majority Relations: An International Law Perspective
Rainer Hofmann
Chapter 8. Third Party Mediation in Violent Ethnic Conflicts
Norbert Ropers
PART IV: CONCLUSION
Chapter 9. In Quest of Peaceful Coexistence – Strategies in Regulating Ethnic Conflicts
Ulrich Schneckener and Dieter Senghaas
Index
