Ethnic Conflict, Tribal Politics

A Global Perspective

Kenneth Christie

• Editore: Routledge
• Anno: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000143980
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Scienze sociali
• Categoria: Studi sull'etnia

There is an urgent need for a book which combines the approaches of political science/sociology and history and particularly comparative politics with ethnic studies. There are currently many rapid and significant changes taking place in the world political map in terms of ethnic conflict. How do we explain these changes? How do we analyse them? How can we compare them? How do we make sense of the different ethnic conflicts that have taken place since the end of the Cold War, in what some observers have dubbed 'the New World Order'? Few books on the market combine the diverse approaches of political science, sociology and history at any level of analysis. This work will remedy at least some of the deficiencies in the existing literature and be truly interdisciplinary in nature.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: The Problem with Ethnicity and ‘Tribal’ Politics
• 2 Theories of Ethnicity, Tribalism and Nationalism
• 3 Minority Nationalism or Tribal Sentiments? The Cases of Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia
• 4 Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: Comparing ex-Yugoslavia, Romania and Albania
• 5 Ethnic Conflict in China: The Case of Tibet
• 6 Tribalism and Elites in a Demotic State: the Case of Sri Lanka
• 7 Ethnic Conflict in Post Cold War Africa: Four Case Studies (Rwanda, Liberia, Somalia and Kwazulu-Natal)
• 8 Tribalism and Nationalism in Turkey: Reinventing Politics
• Index