The Three Images of Ethnic War
Author | : | Querine Hanlon |
Year of Publication | : | 2010 |
Publisher | : | Pentagon Press |
ISBN - 13 | : | 9780313356827 |
Edition | : | First |
Language | : | English |
Binding | : | Hardcover |
Subject | : | Warfare |
About the Book :
Why do ethnic groups adopt violent means? In the 1990s,
ethnicity emerged as the principle source of organized violence around the world.
Ethnic wars were no longer internal conflicts between substate actors; instead
they challenged state sovereignty and taxed the international community`s
ability to respond.
Efforts to understand ethnic conflict remain divorced from the study of systemic
change and the declining authority, capacity, and legitimacy of weak
multiethnic states. This work proposes that the phenomenon of ethnic violence
must be understood through a multilevel approach and that finding a solution to
ethnic violence is possible only if we have a clear understanding of the
sources that spark such violence in the first place.
The Three Images of Ethnic War identifies the causes of ethnic
war at three levels of analysis; the group, the state, and the international.
These are the three images of ethnic war. This book places the outbreak of
violence within context of the state and the international system in which the
violence unfolds. Hanlon examines three violent ethnic wars in Yugoslavia,
Nagorno-Karabakh, and Iraq. Yugoslavia`s violent ethnic wars, the war over
Nagorno-Karabakh, and the violent conflict between Kurds and Arabs in Iraqi
Kurdistan demonstrate that ethnic violence is a complex and multifaceted
occurrence. Hanlon argues that the numerous reasons why groups adopt violent
means can only be understood through a multilevel framework of the three images
of ethnic war and the interrelationship among them.
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