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Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States - Institutional Incentives, Myths and Counter-Balancing (Paperback)
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Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States - Institutional Incentives, Myths and Counter-Balancing (Paperback)
Series: Asian Security Studies
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Interethnic competition in plural societies is often characterized
by a 'counterbalance' of political and economic strength between
different groups. In such cases, tensions emerge as politically
dominant groups fear loss of hegemony to more economically
aggressive groups. Likewise, economically successful groups require
key public goods and a political atmosphere conducive to
investment. These social relations are couched in terms of ethnic
mythologies that stress the indigenous role of one group, and
consequently its superior political status. This book develops a
model that explains how and why interethnic bargains between rival
groups can erode given different institutional configurations. It
is hypothesized that interethnic conflict is more likely in
countries where political institutions fail to insulate the
political hegemony of traditionally dominant ethnic communities and
redistributive programs fail to improve the economic position of
ethnic majorities. In such cases, outbidding strategies by more
extreme ethnic leaders are more successful and violence becomes
more likely. Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States will
be of interest to students of ethnic conflict, Asian politics and
security studies.
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