Conflicting Theories of Ethnic Conflicts
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Описание:
Authoritarian and oppressive though their systems were, the socialist multiethnic states, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, managed to escape the nasty face of ethnic violence until the very last days of their existence. Beginning of the end was reached when the truly path-breaking reform package, perestroika, was proposed by Gorbachev. As irony of the history, shortly those states turned into the hub of ethnic violence that is characterized by extreme brutality.The primary question to be answered in this work is whether recent theories of ethnic conflict are providing plausible explanations to violent post-Soviet conflicts. Taking this as departure point, the author argues that these theories can offer only partial explanations, due to their failure to appreciate the complexity of ethnic conflict and attribution of too much rationality to participants of conflicts. In this light, the author takes the years 1988-1992 in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and scrutinizes the sub-national actors,...Похожие книги
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