Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts
Edited by Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr.
Greenwood Press Westport, Connecticut \u2022 London Page iii
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts / edited by Joseph R. Rudolph,
Jr.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0\u2013313\u201331381\u20134 (alk. paper)
1. Ethnic relations\u2014Political aspects\u2014Encyclopedias. 2. Cultural
conflict\u2014Encyclopedias.
3. World politics\u20141995\u20132005\u2014Encyclopedias. I. Rudolph, Joseph R.
(Joseph Russell),
1942\u2013
GN496.E56 2003
305.8'003\u2014dc21 2002070025
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Copyright 2003 by Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr.
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2002070025 ISBN: 0-313-31381-4 First published in 2003 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
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Printed in the United States of America
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To those members of the American melting pot who have blessed my life: my Irish-English-American mother, my German-American father, my Italian-American daughter, Alexandra, and my German\ue001Polish-Lithuanian-American wife, Sabrina.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi Maps xiii Introduction xix Bolivia: Ethnicized Peasant
Conflict David W. Dent 1 Burma: The Karen Conflict Martin Smith 9
Canada: The Nationalist Movement in Quebec
Saul Newman 27 Central Europe: The Romany, a Stateless Minority in a
World of States Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 37
China: Ethnic Conflict in the World\u2019s Largest Multinational State
Katherine Palmer Kaup 47 Cyprus: Communal Conflict and the
International System Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 55
Czechoslovakia: The Peaceful Breakup of a State Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr.
61 France: Ethnic Conflict and the Problem of Corsica Sue Ellen Charlton
69
France: The \u201cForeigner\u201d Issue
Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 77 Germany: The Foreign Worker Issue John S.
Bendix 85
India: Ethnic Conflict and Nation-building in a Multiethnic State
Maya Chadda 93 Indonesia: The Struggle to Control East Timor Stephen
Zunes 101 Page viii
Lebanon: Ethnic Conflict and the Lebanese Civil War, 1975\u20131990 Marie-Joelle Zahar 109 Malaysia: The Malay-Chinese Conflict Amy L. Freedman 119
Mexico: The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas Richard Stahler-Sholk 127 Middle East: The Arab-Jewish Struggle for Palestine to 1948 James A. Reilly 137 Middle East: The Kurds Struggle for \u201cKurdistan\u201d
Michael M. Gunter 151
Middle East: The Palestinian Issue Deborah J. Gerner 161 Nigeria: Ethnic Conflict in Multinational West Africa James S. Wunsch 169 Rwanda: Hutu-Tutsi Conflict and Genocide in Central Africa Stephen D. Wrage 183 Soviet Union: The Conflict in Chechnya Robert Bruce Ware 191 Soviet Union: The Ethnic Conflicts in Georgia Stuart J. Kaufman 199 Soviet Union: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Stuart J. Kaufman 207
Spain: Basque Nationalism and Conflict in Democratic Spain Roland Vazquez 215 Sri Lanka: Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict in India\u2019s Backyard Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. 225 Sudan: Ethnic Conflict in the Sudan Ann Mosely Lesch 235
United Kingdom: The Making of British Race Relations Anthony Mark Messina 243 United Kingdom: The Irish Question and the Partition of Ireland Sean P. Duffy 251 United Kingdom: The Conflict in Ulster Sean P. Duffy 259
United Kingdom: Scotland and Scottish Nationalism Robert J. Thompson
269
United Kingdom: The Decline and Revival of Welsh Nationalism Terrence
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