Ethnicity, Nationalism and Violence : Conflict Management, Human Rights, and Multilateral Regimes.: Conflict Management, Human Rights, and Multilateral Regimes. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Scherrer, Christian P
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; The Author; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Glossary; Introduction: Ethno-nationalism in the International System; PART I: ETHNO-NATIONALIST CHALLENGE WITHIN THE NATION-STATE; 1 The Nation-State Project: Colonial Export and 'Mother of Disorder'; The Colonial Clash of Civilizations; The European Idea of the Nation-State and its Ambivalence; Emergency Cases in the New World Disorder: Separatism and State Failure; The National Dilemma, Hybrid Nationalism and Failed Development; Summary and Conclusions; Notes 2 Intra-state Conflicts and Disappearance of Clausewitzean Warfare'Ethnic' and other Intra-state Conflicts: Chronic and Forgotten; Towards a Typology of Forgotten Wars and Mass Violence; Lacunae of Global Surveys on Mass Violence; Contemporary Mass Violence: Trends and Perspectives; The Challenge of Ethno-nationalism and the Tendency of Peripheral States to Conflict and Collapse; International Terrorism: A Provisional Assessment; Notes; 3 Genocide as the Ultimate Crime; Defining Genocide and Mass Murder; Genocide in the 20th Century; A Typology of Genocide Patterns of Total Genocide and Indicators of AlertThe Problem of Enforcing the Anti-Genocide Convention; Notes; 4 Structural Features of Ethno-nationalist Conflicts; Is There Such a Thing as an Ethnic Conflict Per Se?; The Concept of the Ethnos and the Nation-without-State; False Theses Concerning Ethnicity, Ethnicization, and Ethno-nationalism; Structural Features; Statistical Conflict Potential; The Actors Involved and Their Conflicting Relations; The History of a Conflict: Background and Causal Factors; Causes of a Conflict; The Triggers to a Conflict and Their Relationship to the Causes Matters in Dispute Classified by UrgencyAims and Demands of the Parties to the War; Opposition Organizations, Recruiting Base, and Leadership; Conflict Formation: Course of the Conflict, Legitimating Violence, Conduct of Hostilities, Weaponry; Resources, Hinterland, and the Question of Outside Involvement; Understanding the Problem is the First Step to its Solution; Notes; PART II: RESPONSES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM; 5 Options for Preventing Violence and Resolving Conflict; Change of Perspective after the Rwanda Shock; From Conflict Research to Peace Research Positive Peace: Between Past, Present and UtopiaConclusions; Notes; 6 Minorities, New States, and Human Rights; The Propagation of States as a Form of Conflict Resolution; War Without Rules and the Activity of Humanitarian Organizations; Procedures for Enforcing Minimum Human-Rights Standards; Discrimination of Minorities; The European Anti-racist Movements and their Influence; Combating Racism and Xenophobia; Minority Rights and Anti-racism: The EU and Eastward Enlargement; Human-Rights Regimes in Regional and UN Organizations; The Struggles of the Indian Peoples of the Americas
• Publisher Details: London : Taylor and Francis
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.6; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties; Global Governance; Racial & Ethnic Politics; International relations and culture; Nation-state; Ethnic conflict; Human rights; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Ethnic conflict; Human rights; International relations and culture; Nation-state; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315193809; 1315193809; 1351759175; 9781351759175
• Related ISBNs: 1138722138; 9781138722132
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