Ethnic Politics and Conflict/Violence
Ethnicity is one of the most salient and enduring topics of social science, not least with regard to its potential link to political conflict/violence. Despite, or perhaps because of, the concepts significant use, all too seldom has the field paused to consider the state of our knowledge. For example, how do we define and conceive of ethnicity within the context of political conflict? What do we really know about the causal determinants of ethnic conflict? What has been the most useful development within this literature, and why?
This volume comprises reflections from an international range of prominent political scientists all engaged in the study of ethnicity and conflict/violence. They attempt to synthesize what the field does and does not know with regard to ethnic conflict, as well as draw out the research directions for the immediate future in unique and interesting ways.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethnopolitics.
Erika Forsberg is Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Her current research interests include gender inequality and political conflict, and the effects conflict exposure/trauma may have on individuals psychological health and intergroup attitudes.
Jhanna K. Birnir is Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park, USA. Her work examines the role identity plays in politics including electoral politics and conflict. Her current projects examine how the interaction of ethnic and religious demographics creates incentives for mobilization and conflict, and how gender norms influence political behavior.
Christian Davenport is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science, and Faculty Associate, at the University of Michigan, USA, as well as Global Fellow and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. He generally works on state repression/human rights violation and the dynamic relationship between challenging and counter-challenging behavior.
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The books in this series focus on the dynamics and interactions of significant minority and majority nationalisms in the context of globalization and their social, political and economic causes and consequences. Each book is focused on an important topic drawn from the rigorously peer-reviewed articles published in Nationalities Papers and Ethnopolitics, and includes authoritative theoretical reflection and empirical analysis by some of the most widely recognized experts in the world.
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Nationalities Papers
From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities
Cultural politics of architecture, urban planning, and identity in Eurasia
Edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen
The Return to War and Violence
Case studies on the USSR, Russia, and Yugoslavia, 19792014
Edited by Jan Behrends
Ethnic Politics and Conflict/Violence
State of the field and new directions
Edited by Erika Forsberg, Jhanna K. Birnir and Christian Davenport
Ethnopolitics
Non-Territorial Autonomy in Divided Societies
Comparative perspectives
Edited by John Coakley
Ethnicity and Religion
Intersections and comparisons
Edited by Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd
Migration and Divided Societies
Edited by Chris Gilligan and Susan Ball
Ethnic Politics and Conflict/Violence
State of the Field and New Directions
Edited by
Erika Forsberg, Jhanna K. Birnir and Christian Davenport
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Contents
Erika Forsberg, Jhanna K. Birnir and Christian Davenport
Monica Duffy Toft
John F. McCauley
Lars-Erik Cederman and Julian Wucherpfennig
Anita R. Gohdes
Ted Robert Gurr
Henry E. Hale
Erin K. Jenne
Will H. Moore
Idean Salehyan
Stephen M. Saideman
Sherrill Stroschein
David A. Lake
Patrick James and Cyrus Mohammadian
David Carment
The chapters in this book were originally published in Ethnopolitics, volume 16, issue 1 (January 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
State of the Field of Ethnic Politics and Conflict
Erika Forsberg, Jhanna Kristn Birnir and Christian Davenport
Ethnopolitics, volume 16, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 14
The Field of Ethnic Conflict Studies: An Interplay of Theory with Reality
Monica Duffy Toft
Ethnopolitics, volume 16, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 511
Disaggregating Identities to Study Ethnic Conflict
John F. McCauley
Ethnopolitics, volume 16, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 1220
Inequalities Between Ethnic Groups, Conflict, and Political Organizations
Lars-Erik Cederman and Julian Wucherpfennig
Ethnopolitics, volume 16, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 2127
Bringing Perpetrator and Victim Identities into Empirical Ethnic Conflict Research
Anita R. Gohdes
Ethnopolitics, volume 16, issue 1 (January 2017) pp. 2833
