Peoples versus States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century - Softcover

Gurr, Ted Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1929223021 ISBN 13: 9781929223022

Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000

Synopsis

Picking up where "Minorities at Risk" left off, "Peoples Versus States" offers an expanded and updated perspective on ethnic and nationalist conflict throughout the world, as well as efforts to manage it.Ted Gurr surveys the behavior of 275 politically active ethnic groups during the 1990s and pinpoints the factors that encourage the assertion of ethnic identities. Whereas his highly acclaimed 1993 book presented a disturbing picture of spreading ethnic violence, this volume documents a pronounced decline since the early 1990s a decline attributable, in part at least, to many states abandoning strategies of assimilation and control in favor of policies of pluralism and accommodation.Nonetheless, Gurr identifies some ninety groups as being at significant risk of conflict and repression in the early 21st century. And he cautions that the emerging global regime of principles and strategies governing relations between communal groups and states is far from perfect or universally effective."

About this title

Synopsis:

An exploration of ethnic and nationalist conflict throughout the world and of the efforts to manage it. The author surveys the behaviour of 275 politically active ethnic groups during the 1990s and pinpoints the factors that encourage the assertion of ethnic identities.

About the Author:

Ted Robert Gurr is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. Among his books are "Why Men Rebel" and "Violence in America".

About this edition

• Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1929223021
• ISBN 13: 9781929223022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448