The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of states and Nations in Eurasia and the World

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 confli...

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第一著者: Hale, Henry E
フォーマット: 図書
言語:English
出版事項: Cambridge University Press 2013
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オンライン・アクセス:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36074
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要約: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 insight leads to a new general theory of ethnic conflict and nationalism that can improve both understanding and practice. Supporting this claim is a wide-ranging discussion of patterns in secessionism, international integration, state collapse, race relations, and deadly ethnic violence found across the globe. Special attention is paid to an in-depth case study of national separatism in Eurasia, which produces a major reinterpretation of nationalism’s role in the USSR’s breakup and interstate relations in the Commonwealth of Independent States.