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Nationalist Passions (Paperback)
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Nationalist Passions (Paperback)
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Nationalist and ethnic conflict can take many forms, from genocidal
violence and civil war to protest movements and peaceful squabbles
in democracies. Nationalist Passions poses a stark challenge to
extreme rationalist understandings of political conflict. Stuart J.
Kaufman elaborates a compelling theory of ethnic politics to
explain why ethnic violence erupts in some contexts and how peace
is maintained in others. At the core of Kaufman's theory is an
assertion that conflicts are initiated due to popular "symbolic
predispositions"-biases of all kinds-and perceptions of
threat.Kaufman puts his theory to the test in a range of conflicts.
He examines some highly violent episodes, among them the Muslim
rebellion in the southern Philippines beginning in the 1970s; the
civil war in southern Sudan that began in the 1980s; and the Rwanda
genocide of 1994. Kaufman also analyzes other situations in which
leaders attempted to tame the violence that nationalist passions
can generate. In India, Mahatma Gandhi mobilized an overtly
nonviolent movement but failed in his efforts to prevent the rise
of Muslim-Hindu communal violence. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela
and F. W. de Klerk ended apartheid, but not without terrible
cost-more than fifteen thousand people died while the negotiations
were under way. In Tanzania, however, Julius Nyerere led one of the
few ethnically diverse countries in the world with almost no ethnic
violence. Nationalist Passions is essential reading for
policymakers, international aid workers, and all others who seek to
find the best possible outcomes for future internal and interstate
clashes.
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