The Myth of "Ethnic Conflict": Politics, Economics, and "Cultural" Violence Edited by Beverly Crawford and Ronnie D. Lipschutz 1998, ISBN: 0-87725-198-3 SUGGESTED CITATION: Beverly Crawford and Ronnie D. Lipschutz, ed. The Myth of "Ethnic Conflict": Politics, Economics, and "Cultural" Violence. University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, Research Series #98, 1998. http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/research/98 This work has been peer reviewed.

In the last decade, discourses of economic and political liberalization and globalization have swept the world. Yet during this same period and all across the globe, many states are fragmenting and more than 30 ethnic and sectarian conflicts have displaced or killed millions of people — and far more civilians than soldiers. The authors in this volume argue that much of this violence is closely linked to those globalizing forces and demands for economic liberalization which have weakened states' capacities, both political and financial, for redistributing resources. As a result, many states have been forced to break established social contracts, often dramatically changing power relations in heterogeneous societies that previously had been relatively stable. Drawing on case studies from Asia, Eastern Europe, North Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the United States, the authors demonstrate how these distributional issues and power shifts have been experienced as ethnic and religious discrimination and are often at the root of identity politics and violent, so-called "cultural," conflicts.

Contents

Front Matter, including Acknowledgments, Beverly Crawford and Ronnie D. Lipschutz (p. i-vii)

The Causes of Cultural Conflict: An Institutional Approach, Beverly Crawford (p. 3-43)

Seeking a State of One’s Own: An Analytical Framework for Assessing Ethnic and Sectarian Conflicts, Ronnie D. Lipschutz (p. 44-78)

Liberalization and Ethnic Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Successor States, Philip G. Roeder (p. 78-107)

National Conflict Internalized: A Discourse of the Fall of the First Russian Republic, Michael Urban (p. 108-146)

Nationalism: Rethinking the Paradigm in the European Context, Andrew V. Bell-Fialkoff and Andrei S. Markovits (p. 147-194)

Explaining Cultural Conflict in the Ex-Yugoslavia: Institutional Weakness, Economic Crisis, and Identity Politics, Beverly Crawford (p. 197-260)

The Tale of Two Resorts: Abkhazia and Ajaria Before and Since and the Soviet Collapse, Georgi M. Derluguian (p. 261-292)

Islamist Responses to Globalization: Cultural Conflict in Egypt, Algeria, and Malaysia, Paul M. Lubeck (p. 293-319)

Cultural Conflict in India: Punjab and Kashmir, Nirvikar Singh (p. 320-352)

Reemerging Ethnic Politics in Germany: Far Right Parties and Violence, John C. Leslie (p. 353-393)

From “Culture Wars” to Shooting Wars: Cultural Conflict in the United States, Ronnie D. Lipschutz (p. 394-433)

Muting Inter-Ethnic Conflict in Post-Imperial Britain: The Success and Limits of a Liberal Political Approach, Elaine Thomas (p. 434-470)

Identity (Trans)formation among Bulgarian Muslims, Maria Todorova (p. 471-510)

The Causes of Cultural Conflict: Assessing the Evidence, Beverly Crawford (p. 513-561)

Notes on Contributors, Beverly Crawford and Ronnie D. Lipschutz (p. 563)