Routledge Revivals
The Internationalization of Communal Strife
First published in 1992, this edited collection argues that conflicts have a growing tendency both to intensify and to lengthen, thus increasing the likelihood of external actors being drawn into the on-going violence. Here, leading experts in comparative and international politics examine this tendency of communal conflicts to spill over into the international arena. They also look at the conditions under which these processes do not occur and are mediated successfully. The authors combine theoretical perspectives with case studies, covering examples from the origins of the First World War, to state building in Iraq, and whether it was a precursor of the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf Crisis. They present both a global overview and a focus on the state as the single most important intermediary in the internationalization process.
A comprehensive and relevant reissue, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of International Relations, Comparative Politics and Strategic Studies.
The Internationalization of Communal Strife
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Manus I. Midlarsky
First published in 1992
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THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF COMMUNAL STRIFE
Edited by
Manus I. Midlarsky
First published 1992
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CONTENTS
Ted R. Gurr
I. William Zartman
James T. Johnson
Eric Davis
Karen Rasler
Jack S. Levy and Lily I. Vakili
John A. Vasquez
Mantis I. Midlarsky
Stuart Hill and Donald Rothchild
Cynthia McClintock
Marina Ottaway
Saadia Touval
C. R. Mitchell
Eric Davis (Ph.D., University of Chicago), is the author of Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 19201941 (Princeton, 1983/Institute of Arab Studies Beirut, 1986), and co-editor of Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory and Popular Culture (Florida, 1991). He is currently completing a monograph, Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq, that will be published by the University of California Press. He is also the author of articles on Islamic radicalism, modern Iraqi politics and US foreign policy in the Persian Gulf.
Ted Robert Gurr, who formerly taught at Northwestern University and the University of Colorado, joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1989 as Professor of Government and Politics and Distinguished Scholar of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management. Among his fifteen books and monographs are Why Men Rebel, which won the APSAs Woodrow Wilson Prize as the best book of 1970, Violence in America (1969, 1979, and 1989 editions), and the forthcoming Minorities at Risk: Dynamics and Outcomes of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Contemporary World. In 1991 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association.
Stuart Hill is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. His research seeks to understand the impact of political experience and technological change on citizen assessments. His recent work has appeared in Policy Sciences and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. He is also the author of a forthcoming book, Democratic Values and Technological Choices (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), that challenges the conventional wisdom in public opinion and voting studies that the laypublic is incapable of making sophisticated judgments about complex technological choices.
James Turner Johnson (Ph.D., Princeton, 1968) is University Director of International Programs, Professor of Religion, and Associate of the Graduate Department of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Jersey. His research and teaching have focused principally on the historical development and application of moral traditions related to war, peace, and the practice of statecraft. His books include Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War (Princeton, 1975), Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War (Princeton, 1981), Can Modern War Be Just? (Yale, 1984), The Quest for Peace: Three Moral Traditions in Western Cultural History (Princeton, 1987), and (edited with John Kelsay) Cross, Crescent, and Sword: The Justification and Limitation of War in Western and Islamic Tradition (Greenwood, 1990) and Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions (Greenwood, 1991).
Jack S. Levy is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He is author of War in the Modern Great Power System, 14951975, and has contributed articles to numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes. His primary research interests concern the causes of war, which he analyzes from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Professor Levys recent work focuses on the domestic sources of war and alliance formation, the role of learning in foreign policy, the risk orientations of political leaders, long cycles and hegemonic transitions, the preventive motivation for war, and World War I. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript on the causes of war.