The Wars Within : : Peoples and States in Conflict / / Robin M. Williams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Williams, Robin M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 1 table

In The Wars Within, Robin M. Williams Jr. brings together decades of thought about ethnic conflicts in an effort to better understand their dynamics and to lessen their disastrous consequences. Williams presents a worldwide perspective, conscious that many studies of ethnicity focus primarily on the United States. The stakes of struggles can involve both material resources, such as oil, diamonds, and gold, and sociocultural goods, such as group status and cultural distinctiveness. Ethnic conflict, Williams finds, can be portrayed as a set of dynamic processes that may escalate from restrained confrontations over limited issues to devastating ethnic warfare and genocide.Throughout, Williams attends to present-day realities and continually reminds readers that ethnic conflict has human significance and lasting effects. His analysis implies that the military and political behavior of the United States profoundly affects whether faraway places attempt ethnic cooperation or shatter into deadly conflict. The Wars Within ends on a note of mild hope as Williams provides an overview of ways to prevent, moderate, or resolve severe intrastate violence.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction. World System and Global Disorder? -- PART I. THE COLLECTIVE ACTORS -- CHAPTER ONE.The Multiple Realities of Ethnicity -- CHAPTER TWO. The Reality of States and Nationalism -- CHAPTER THREE. Ethnies: Contenders and Rulers -- PART II.SOURCES OF CONFLICT -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Stakes: Interests and Claims -- CHAPTER FIVE. Sources and Precipitants of Rivalry and Violent Conflict -- PART III.THE DYNAMICS OF MOBILIZATION AND CONFLICT -- CHAPTER SIX. From Grievances to Mobilization -- CHAPTER SEVEN. From Mobilization to Violent Conflict -- CHAPTER EIGHT. From Identity to Genocide: The Problem of Understanding -- PART IV.WHAT CAN BE DONE -- CHAPTER NINE. Avoiding the Gathering Storm: The Array of Preventive Actions -- CHAPTER TEN. Terminations, Accommodations, and Resolutions -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Peace at Last? Reflections on Paths toward Reconciliation and Reconstruction -- Epilogue -- References -- Index