INTERNATIONAL: 'Ethnicity' undermines global stability

Friday, March 28, 2008

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Recent ethnic-based instability
Kenyan elections
Tibet
Kosovo
Politics of ethnicity
Potential for violence
Difficult to suppress
Defining ethnicity
Tribe
Race
From race to ethnicity
Ethnicity and nationalism
Primordialists
Modernists
Ethnicity as political motivator
Civic nationalism
Ethno-nationalism
Multi-citizenship
The US transformation
The Dutch reversion
Political organisation and nationalism

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