Politics and Ethnicity: A Comparative Study (Perspectives on Comparative Politics Series)

This book is concerned with the continuing importance of ethnicity in the political processes of the contemporary world. Carefully selected case studies are placed into a comparative context in order to explore both the range of ethnopolitical conflict and the efforts to manage it in advanced democratic, democratizing post-communist, and developing countries. Throughout, the focus is on (1) the impact of ethnicity on domestic and international politics; (2) the changing nature of the means by which ethnic conflict is currently being managed; and (3) the variables which affect the dynamics of ethnopolitics - in particular, the relationship of ethnicity to such other forms of social and political differentiation and segmentation as class and territoriality.