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The Foundations of Ethnic Politics - 9780521719209
Un libro in lingua di Hale Henry E. edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2008
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Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers seldom consult psychological research when addressing the most basic question: What is ethnicity? The result is a radical scholarly divide generating contradictory recommendations for solving ethnic conflict. Research into how the human brain actually works demands a revision of existing schools of thought. At its foundation, ethnic identity is a cognitive uncertainty-reduction device with special capacity to exacerbate, but not cause, collective action problems. This produces a new general theory of ethnic conflict that can improve both understanding and practice. A deep study of separatism in the USSR and CIS demonstrates the theory's potential, mobilizing evidence from elite interviews, three local languages, and mass surveys. The outcome is a significant reinterpretation of nationalism's role in the USSR's breakup, which turns out to have been a far more contingent event than commonly recognized. International relations in the CIS are similarly cast in new light.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Foundations of Ethnic Politics
- Sottotitolo: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Hale Henry E.
- Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Collana: (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Gennaio '08
- Genere: POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Ethnic relations Political aspects Ethnicity Political aspects Ethnic conflict
- Pagine: 278
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0521719208
- EAN-13: 9780521719209