The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation
The problem of ethnic conflict regulation has become increasingly prominent in Europe since 1989 and the dissolution of communist power; the bloodshed inside the former Yugoslavia and ex-USSR being the most dramatic manifestation of this development. Other ethnic conflicts have continued unabated in South Africa and Northern Ireland as well as in Canada and Malaysia.
This edited collection begins with a substantial introduction which classifies and judges the morality, feasibility and consequences of all the major methods of ethnic conflict regulation. There follows a comprehensive set of case studies from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania which cover examples of relatively benign and amicable relations between ethnic communities, as well as ones where domination is enforced. They include examples of the normatively desirable, such as federalism, and the morally appalling such as genocide.
John McGarry and Brendan OLeary have put together an extremely timely book of great relevance to current events. Many of the contributors are leading authorities on their respective case studies. This book should become the standard work on ethnic conflict regulation and will be essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in this field.
John McGarry is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Political Science, Kings College, London, Ontario.
Brendan OLeary is Reader in Political Science and Public Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation
Case Studies of Protracted Ethnic Conflicts
Edited by John McGarry and Brendan OLeary
First published 1993
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1993 John McGarry and Brendan OLeary
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue reference for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 041507522X
0415099315
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The politics of ethnic conflict regulation : case studies of protracted ethnic conflicts / edited by John McGarry and Brendan OLeary.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 041507522X. ISBN 0415099315
1. Race relationsCase studies. 2. Ethnic relationsCase studies. 3. Plualism (Social sciences)Case studies.
I. McGarry, John. II. OLeary, Brendan.
HT1521.P573 1993
305.8dc20
9245848
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Contributors
Heribert Adam is Professor in Sociology at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Modernizing Racial Domination (1971) and co-author (with Herman Giliomee) of Ethnic Power Mobilized: Can South Africa Change? (1979).
Maureen Covell is Professor in Political Science at Simon Fraser University. She is author of Madagascar: Politics, Economics and Society (1978).
Michael Keating is Professor in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. He is author of State and Regional Nationalism: Territorial Politics and the European State (1988) and co-author of Decentralisation and Change in Contemporary France (1986).
Ren Lemarchand is Professor in Politics, School of African Studies, University of Florida. He is the author of Selective Genocide in Burundi (1973) and Rwanda and Burundi (1970).
Dominic Lieven is Senior Lecturer in Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Russia and the Origins of the First World War (1984) and Aristocracy in Europe, 18151914 (1991).
Diane Mauzy is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. She is co-author (with Stephen Milne) of The Government and Politics of Malaysia (second edition, 1988).
John McGarry is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Political Science, Kings College, London, Ontario. He is the co-editor (with Brendan OLeary) of The Future of Northern Ireland (1990) and co-author (with Brendan OLeary) of The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland (1992).
Kogila Moodley is director of the Multicultural Program in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. She is the co-author (with Heribert Adam) of South Africa without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination (1986).
S. J. R. Noel is Professor in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Politics in Newfoundland (1971) and Patrons, Clients, Brokers: Ontario Society and Politics, 17911896 (1990).
Brendan ODuffy is writing his doctoral dissertation entitled Political Violence in Ireland at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Brendan OLeary is Reader in Political Science and Public Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of The Asiatic Mode of Production (1989) and co-author (with Patrick Dunleavy) of Theories of the State: The Politics of Liberal Democracy (1987).
Ralph Premdas is Associate Professor in Politics at the University of the West Indies. He is the co-editor of Secessionist Movements in Comparative Perspective (1990) and author of articles on Fiji in several journals.
George Schpflin is Joint Lecturer in East European Political Institutions at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is the co-author (with Stephen White and John Gardner) of Communist Political Systems (second edition, 1987) and co-editor (with Nancy Wood) of In Search of Central Europe (1989).
Gurharpal Singh is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Simon de Montfort University. His doctoral dissertation entitled Communism in the Punjab up to 1967 was awarded at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1987.
Acknowledgements
Both editors incurred numerous debts while working on this book. John McGarry would like to thank the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Kings College Research Grants Committee for funding. He is also indebted to Jim Crimmins, Michael Keating, Margaret Moore and Sid Noel for commenting upon various aspects of the project. Brendan OLeary would like to thank the LSE Research Committee for assistance, and Brian Barry, Patrick Dunleavy, George Jones, Peter Loizos, Tom Lyne, David Schiff, George Schpflin and Lorelei Watson for diverse helpful comments on the manuscript.
We are grateful to our contributors for agreeing to undertake their tasks and for delivering the finished products in reasonable time. Gordon Smith of Routledge deserves our gratitude for his encouragement and patience. Paul King, our research assistant, was very helpful throughout. Finally we would like to thank our secretaries, Jane Borecky, Sharon Batkins and Vanessa Sulch, for cheerfully carrying out the multiple jobs necessary for the books completion.
