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Nationalist Passions
Stuart J. Kaufman
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Description for Nationalist Passions
paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12, 2 black & white line drawings, 6 maps, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPFN; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
Nationalist and ethnic conflict can take many forms, from genocidal violence and civil war to protest movements and peaceful squabbles in democracies. Nationalist Passions poses a stark challenge to extreme rationalist understandings of political conflict. Stuart J. Kaufman elaborates a compelling theory of ethnic politics to explain why ethnic violence erupts in some contexts and how peace is maintained in others. At the core of Kaufman’s theory is an assertion that conflicts are initiated due to popular "symbolic predispositions"—biases of all kinds—and perceptions of threat.
Kaufman puts his theory to the test in a range of conflicts. He examines ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501700569
SKU
V9781501700569
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About Stuart J. Kaufman
Stuart J. Kaufman is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War (winner of the 2003 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order), also from Cornell, and coeditor of The Balance of Power in World History.
Reviews for Nationalist Passions
"Nationalist Passions is a beautifully written, ambitious, and insightful book on a very important topic. Stuart J. Kaufman's arguments are nuanced and display a great breadth of knowledge on the topic of ethnic conflict and on specific disputes worldwide from Gandhi's India to Mandela’s South Africa, from the Philippines to Tanzania. The scope of this book is comprehensive and bold ... Read more