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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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Online dostop: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36074 |
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| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt |
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| Izvleček: | 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. |
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