Saturday, November 25, 2006

The Myth of Ethnic Warfare
From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2001

Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. Stuart J. Kaufman.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001, 288 pp. $19.95.

Summary:
Stuart Kaufman tries to explain why so many ethnic conflicts erupted at the end of the Cold War. The only problem is that few of these had anything to do with ethnicity in the first place.
Charles King is Assistant Professor in the School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His latest book is The Moldovans.

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