Ethnicity and Power in the Contemporary World (UNU, 1996, 298 pages)

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Note to the reader from the UNU

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Governance and conflict resolution in multi-ethnic societies

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1 Governance, ethnicity, and conflict resolution

2 The role of the state

3 The concept of self-determination

4 Governance and conflict resolution in multi-ethnic societies

5 International responses and mechanisms

2. Ethnic conflict in the Horn of Africa: Myth and reality

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Introduction

Conceptual problems

Problems of definition

Ethnicity and social harmony

The role of ideology

Traditional remedies

An alternative approach

Conclusion

3. Ethnic conflicts in the context of social science theories

4. Settlement of ethnic conflicts in post-Soviet society

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1 Introduction

2 Types of inter-ethnic conflicts and their distribution

3 Ways to prevent ethnic conflicts

5. Dynamics of the Moldova Trans-Dniester ethnic conflict (late 1990s to early 1990s)

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1 Introduction

2 Historical background

3 Linguistic disputes and growth of ethnic political activism in Moldova

4 First power shift and proclamation of sovereignty

5 From declaring sovereignty to declaring independence

6 The august 1991 coup attempt and the transition to independence

7 Large-scale inter-ethnic violence

8 Bloodshed and conflict settlement in Bendery

9 Socio-political change and inter-ethnic violence

10 Ethno-political legitimacy crisis as transition to violence

6. Ethnic conflict in the Osh region in summer 1990: Reasons and lessons

7. From centre-periphery conflict to the making of new nationality policy in an independent state: Estonia

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From country to borderland, from nation to minority

An ethnically divided society

The language issue

Who has been the minority since august 1991?

Conclusion

8. Conflict management in the former USSR and world experience

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1 Introduction

2 On the notion of ''conflict management''

3 Two cultures of conflict management

4 Ethnic conflicts as objects of management

5 Ethnic conflicts in the former USSR: history and lessons

6. Conclusion: Learning lessons

9. The dissolution of multi-ethnic states: The case of Yugoslavia

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Prologue

The situation after the process of dissolution

Unresolved problems will remain

What are the prospects?

Conclusion

10. Ethnic conflict, federalism, and democracy in India

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India's ethnic spectrum

Potential for conflicts and their protraction

Simultaneous conflict formation and conflict containment

Dynamics of development

Federalism

Democratic politics

Conclusion

11. An intractable conflict? Northern Ireland: A need for pragmatism

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Introduction

An intractable conflict?

A tractable conflict?

12. Political autonomy and conflict resolution: The Basque case

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1 Introduction

2. Basque singularity

3. The significant political problems

4 The statute of autonomy

5 Autonomic praxis

6 Conclusion

13. Ethnic and racial groups in the USA: Conflict and cooperation

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Introduction

Post-1965, immigration and the breakdown of the racial/ethnic dichotomy

Voluntary and involuntary minorities

The identities of the dominant groups

Identities and bias incidents

Incidents of bias in New York city

Howard beach

Competing perspectives, multiple realities

14. Ethnic conflicts and minority protection: Roles for the international community

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1 Why should the international community be concerned with ethnic conflicts?

2. International roles in conflict prevention and resolution

3 Reconciling the humanist impulsion and the quest for a stable international order: Requirements by the international community on how to manage minority conflicts

4 Conclusions

15 The right to autonomy: Chimera or solution?

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