An Introduction to Ethnic Conflict

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3117-2

Paperback

200 pages

June 2004, Polity

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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Written by one of the world’s leading scholars in the area of ethnic politics and ethnic conflict.
In ten concise chapters, this new textbook provides a geographically and substantively comprehensive overview of the phenomena of ethnic conflict on a global scale.
As the only textbook on the market written for an undergraduate audience, the book explores the meaning of ethnic conflict and alerts readers to the conceptual problems associated with its interpretation, the diverse forms it may take and how it can be controlled.
The arguments presented in the text are enriched and enlivened by a plethora of apt examples drawn from all continents. Each chapter ends with a brief concluding section summarising the major arguments and themes.
The book also includes a glossary of key terms and a guide to further reading