Author Description

About the Author Ted Robert Gurr is distinguished professor at University of Maryland. He is an internationally known authority on the causes and management of political violence and ethnic conflict. He has been a senior consultant to the U.S. government's State Failure Task Force. Barbara Harff is professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Strassler Distinguished Visiting Professor at Clark University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Her writings on the international and comparative dimensions of massive human rights violations explore the connections between ethnic conflict and genocide, and analyze international responsibilities for restraining violence within states. Barbara Harff has been a senior consultant to the U.S. government's State Failure Task Force. Product Description As hot spots from Bosnia to the Caucasus to the Horn of Africa clearly signal, the end of the Cold War does not mean an end to regional conflict but rather the early phase of a new era in world history. This book is an introduction to this new era of ethnic challenges to world order and security.From Africa€™s postcolonial rebellions in the 1960s and 1970s to the anti-immigrant violence in the 1990s, Ethnic Conflict in World Politics surveys the historical, geographic, and cultural diversity of ethnopolitical conflict. Using an analytical model to elucidate four well-chosen case studies€”the Kurds, the Miskitos, the Chinese in Malaysia, and the Turks in Germany€”the authors give students tools for analyzing emerging conflicts based on the demands of nationalists, indigenous peoples, and immigrant minorities throughout the world. The international community is challenged to respond more constructively to these conflicts than it has in divided Yugoslavia, by using