Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 269 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide). — ISBN10: 3319697862, 13 978-3319697864. The book represents an earthquake in genocide studies, particularly in the field of Armenian Genocide research. A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 242 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide). — ISBN10: 3319697862, 13 978-3319697864. The book represents an earthquake in genocide studies, particularly in the field of Armenian Genocide research. A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to...
Bilgesam Publications. Report No: 51. — 2012. — 27 p. With this new survey report, Bilgesam is continuing to follow the developments around the Kurdish Question. To understand and quantify the societal perception of the Turkish state’s counter terror operations and the democratic opening process, BILGESAM surveyed 2922 people via an online poll and is presenting its findings...
Philadelphia, US: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 312 p. Despite dramatic improvements in the security environment in most parts of Iraq, still unresolved are many core political issues, foremost of which is the conflict over the city and region of Kirkuk. With immense oil reserves and a diverse population of Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmens, Kirkuk in recent history has...
Hoover Institution Press Publication No. 527, 2008. — 209 p. Introduction to the Hoover Classics Edition The German Perception of the United States since September 11 and the European Context Not Just a Friendly Disagreement: Anti-Americanism as Obsession Democratic War, Repressive Peace: On Really Existing Anti-Americanism Saddam as Hitler Anti-Americanism and the Movement...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003. 296 p. Language: English. Donald Bloxham here examines the actions and trials of German soldiers and policemen, the use of legal evidence, the refractory functions of the courtroom, and Allied political and cultural preconceptions of both 'Germanism' and of German criminality. His evidence shows conclusively that the trials were a...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 402 p. On the eve of the Holocaust, antipathy toward Europe’s Jews reached epidemic proportions. Jews fleeing Nazi Germany’s increasingly anti-Semitic measures encountered closed doors everywhere they turned. Why had enmity toward European Jewry reached such extreme heights? How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of...
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010. — xviii, 283 p. — (Asia Pacific Perspectives) — ISBN: 9781442204331. In this book, I look at China’s ethnolitics through offering parallax visions of Mongol-Chinese relations. This book represents an effort to understand the historical path along which the Mongols arrived at their present state in China. It tries to...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions.) The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles of modern times, a dangerous tinderbox always poised to set the Middle East aflame--and to draw the United States into the fire. In this accessible and stimulating Very Short Introduction, Martin Bunton...
St Antony’s College Oxford. South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), European Studies Centre, Occasional Paper No. 7/06, April 2006, 29 p. The paper examines the relationship between spatial structures and ethnopolitical problems and discourses in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Its main aim is to challenge the dominant narratives about the genesis of the...
London & New York: Routledge Curzon Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. — xvii, 490 p. (Caucasus World) — ISBN: 0203988876 (e-Book). The Caucasus has arguably been one of the regions of the Eurasian continent most affected by what in the last decade has come to be called ‘the new world disorder’. Together with former Yugoslavia, it is the area of Eurasia most gravely hit by...
Burger Ethan S.,Cheloukhine Serguei, Springer, 2013, One may wonder with literally scores of excellent books and articles analyzing recent Russian efforts to maintain control over the Northern Caucasus (and Chechnya, in particular), as well as a constant stream of current commentaries and reports on military and political developments in the region found on the Internet and in...
Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1994. — 288 p. Is Nationalism Beneficial? Nationalism Can Be Beneficial Nationalism Can Be Harmful Is Ethnic Violence Ever Justified? Yes: Ethnic Violence Is Justified No: Ethnic Violence Is Not Justified What Are the Causes of Ethnic Conflict? Should Nations Intervene in Ethnic Conflicts? Case Study: The Balkans Nations Should Intervene in the Balkans...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 368 p. “This book provides an important contribution to the study of immigration in Europe. The fast-growing challenge of immigration has resulted in a variety of anti-immigrant outcomes across the countries of Europe. Rafaela Dancygier makes an important distinction between ‘immigrant-native’ and ‘immigrant-state’ conflict, and she develops...
Rutgers University Press, 2014 — 262 p. — ISBN10: 0813563178, ISBN13: 978-0813563176. Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against...
University of California Press, 2005. — 345 p. — ISBN: 0-520-24598-9. Finkelstein, a political science professor and author of The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, has conducted a rancorous public feud with Harvard Law professor and pro-Israel stalwart Alan Dershowitz over the latter's The Case for Israel, and here expands his arguments...
OR Books, 2012. — 470 p. — ISBN: 978-1-935928 — 78 — 2. Traditionally, American Jews have been broadly liberal in their political outlook; indeed African-Americans are the only ethnic group more likely to vote Democratic in US elections. Over the past half century, however, attitudes on one topic have stood in sharp contrast to this group's generally progressive stance: support...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 242 p. Ethnic and national conflicts have been an unexpected and major source of problems in many parts of the world in recent times. Nowhere more so than in the formerly communist countries. This book provides a readable introduction to, and brief analytical coverage of, all the ethnic disputes of the 1990s. Full justice is done both to complex...
Anchor, 1995 — 543 p. In this book the author seeks to understand the political causes and psychological effects of the conflicts in the Middle East. He sketches the prelude to the troubles, and places the events of 1979 to 1988 in their historical context while examining the course and meaning of the Lebanese civil wars, the Syrian self-mutilation at Hama, the refugee-camp...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 406 p. Language: English. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analysis of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 260 p. In the summer of 2008, open war broke out once again in Georgia, a small, multiethnic country along Russia’s Caucasian border. It was not a new conflict. In 1990, as the Soviet Union collapsed, the region of South Ossetia, then part of Soviet Georgia, fought a war of independence with the Georgian government. Both sides in that conflict signed...
Saarbrucken (Germany): LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. 229 p. The expert-analytical study analyzes the preconditions, course and contemporary socio-political consequences of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the Ukrainian nation, which has signs of not only direct and covert, but also inter-state conflict and even civilizational confrontation.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A Division of Lexington Books. 2009. — 370 p. Language: English. Confronting Genocide is a collection of essays by recognized scholars. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda,...
Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke, UK. 2013. 308 p. Includes references and index. ISBN10: 0230251692, 0230251706 Language Policy provides a detailed overview of the theories, concepts, research methods, and findings in one accessible source. The author reviews the latest developments in research methods, and proposes new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual directions....
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 436 p. There might appear to be little that binds the study of order and the study of violence and conflict. Bloodshed in its multiple forms is often seen as something separate from and unrelated to the domains of 'normal' politics that constitute what we think of as order. But violence is used to create order, to maintain it, and to uphold...
London: Pluto Press, 2007. — 221 p. Is Britain becoming a more racist society? Leading media commentator Arun Kundnani looks behind media hysteria to show how multicultural Britain is under attack by government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism. Exacerbated by the attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, Kundnani argues that a new form of racism is...
Melbourne University Publishing, 2009. — 195 p. Benjamin MacQueen presents an innovative and in-depth look at contemporary conflict resolution in the Arab Middle East, developing a unique theory of political culture through his analysis of peace processes in Lebanon and Algeria. Moving beyond conventional perspectives, Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 260 p. This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows how the conflict in fact emerged from processes internal to French society itself...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 590 p. Language: English. This book presents a new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing is modern, 'the dark side of democracy.' It...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 584 p. — ISBN: 978-0-511-23165-0. In addressing the origins of ethnic cleansing, sociologist Mann locates differing stages of political participation as a major factor. He begins with stable authoritarian regimes (e.g., Tito's Yugoslavia) that exclude participation; when such regimes break down, there is a period of everybody scrambling for...
Bloomsbury, 2017. — 374 p. — ISBN: 978-1472942241 (hardcover), eISBN 978-1472942258 The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting...
Stanford University Press, 2009. — 220 p. Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications.Iranophobia offers an innovative and provocative new reading of this conflict. Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the author steps back from all-too-common geopolitical analyses to show...
2nd ed. — Syracuse University Press, 1981. — 298 p. — (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East). In addition to tracing the events involved in the growing intervention by Arab states in Palestine, this book attempts to analyze two specific issues. How did internal conditions in the various Arab countries affect their involvement in Palestine? How did the network of alliances and...
This article traces the factors that led to the adoption of the Charter of the French Language in Quebec in 1977 and the Latvian Language Law in 1999. Concerns for the French language in Quebec in the 1960s and 1970s, the Latvian language in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and in the Latvian state in the 1990s were ignited by some of the same demographic and assimilative...
Routledge, 2005. — 144 p. This book aims to understand the origin and dynamics of so-called intranational conflicts such as those that have been affecting Europe (Northern Ireland, the Basque Country region in Spain, Corsica in France, the former Yugosalvia and Albania), and a number of countries in the developing world (Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda, Haiti,...
Princeton University Press, 2003. 241 p. ISBN: 0-691-11354-8. Illustrations. The Forgotten Meaning of Territory. Indivisible Territory and Ethnic War. Territory and Violence: A statistical Assessment. Russia and Tatarstan. Russia and Chechnya. Georgia and Abkhazia. Georgia and Ajaria. Appendix Tables.
Bruxelles: Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, 1988. — 220 p. Table des matières: Le gouverneur Heenen et les populations africaines. Naissance des sentiments politiques des populations katangaises. Centralisme et décentralisme de l’administration coloniale. La politique unificatrice de la Belgique au Congo. Consciences tribales. L’émergence de l’idée de l’unité...
Ινστιτούτο Ερευνών Προμηθέας, 2015. — 231 σ. Η παρούσα έκδοση αποτελεί μέρος ενός ευρύτερου 18-μηνου σχεδίου με θέμα την Αντιμετώπιση της Ρητορικής, Συμπεριφορών και Εγκλημάτων Μίσους στην Κύπρο ( Confronting Hate Speech, Behaviour and Crimes in Cyprus ) το οποίο ανέλαβε το Ινστιτούτο Ερευνών ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΑΣ τον Απρίλιο του 2014 και συγχρηματοδοτείται από την...
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