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

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...

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