International Law and Ethnic Conflict
Author: David Wippman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780801434334
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International Law and Ethnic Conflict
Author: David Wippman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1501730061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe breakup of the former Yugoslavia demonstrates the limitations of international law in the face of ethnic conflict. The contributors to this book examine the various roles international law and international institutions play in dealing with ethnic conflict. International Law and Ethnic Conflict first covers general philosophical, historical, and cultural issues arising from attempts to apply international law to ethnic conflict. The authors assess the legitimacy of demands based on group identity, the legal rights of ethnic groups, the validity of various entitlement claims, and the meaning of statehood. They then consider the institutional and policy responses of international organizations and states in their attempts to deal with ethnic conflict and analyze the extent to which various forms of intervention prove successful.
Ethnic Conflict
Author: Stefan Wolff
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0192805886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross the world, violent ethnic conflicts continue to destabilise entire regions, hamper development and cause unimaginable human suffering. The author investigates the origins, dynamics, management and settlement of these conflicts.
The Challenge of Conflict: International Law Responds
Author: Ustina Dolgopol
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-03-29
Total Pages: 651
ISBN-13: 9047408209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this collection bring together a wide and diverse range of viewpoints to consider how the catastrophic consequences of deadly armed conflict can be addressed. Commentators are drawn from the United Nations and its agencies, key non- governmental organisations, world-class academic circles, senior members of government, leading human rights lawyers and judges with experience in international criminal law. These experts address deadly conflict in a comprehensive fashion covering all its stages: the causes and prevention of conflict; conflict resolution and peace-building; international criminal law and international humanitarian law and the role of the United Nations, humanitarian organisations and peacekeepers in post conflict situations. This collection is for those with an existing interest and expertise in international law, international relations, peace studies and criminal justice as well as for those who wish to become conversant with emerging developments in these fields.
World on Fire
Author: Amy Chua
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2004-01-06
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1400076374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.
Ethnicity and International Law
Author: Mohammad Shahabuddin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-06
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1107096790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn historical analysis of how ethnicity shaped international law and why it is relevant to minorities and ethnic conflicts today.
The Thin Justice of International Law
Author: Steven R. Ratner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0198704046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering a new interdisciplinary approach to global justice and integrating the insights of international relations and contemporary ethics, this book asks whether the core norms of international law are just by appraising them according to a standard of global justice grounded in the advancement of peace and protection of human rights.
Irredentism
Author: Thomas Ambrosio
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2001-09-30
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0313073422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of national unification has long been a powerful mobilizing force for nationalist thinkers and ethnic entrepreneurs since the rise of nationalist ideology in the late 1700s. This phenomenon came to be known as irredentism. During the Cold War, irredentist projects were largely subordinated to the ideological struggle between East and West. After the Cold War, however, the international system has witnessed a proliferation of such conflicts throughout Europe and Asia. Ambrosio integrates both domestic and international factors to explain both the initiation and settlement of irredentist conflicts. His central argument is that irredentist states confront two potentially contradictory forces: domestic nationalism and pressure from the international community. Irredentist leaders are forced to reconcile their nationalist policies with pressures from the international plane. At the same time, irredentist leaders exploit perceived windows of opportunity in pursuit of their nationalist goals. Ambrosio examines in depth the past, present, and possible irredentist projects of Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, and Armenia within a theoretical and comparative framework. His conclusions yield signficant theoretical findings and important policy implications for both scholars of ethnic conflicts, nationalism, and international relations and policy makers.
Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict
Author: Andreas Wimmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-06-06
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521011853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndreas Wimmer argues that nationalist and ethnic politics have shaped modern societies to a far greater extent than has been acknowledged by social scientists. The modern state governs in the name of a people defined in ethnic and national terms. Democratic participation, equality before the law and protection from arbitrary violence were offered only to the ethnic group in a privileged relationship with the emerging nation-state. Depending on circumstances, the dynamics of exclusion took on different forms. Where nation building was successful , immigrants and ethnic minorities are excluded from full participation; they risk being targets of xenophobia and racism. In weaker states, political closure proceeded along ethnic, rather than national lines and leads to corresponding forms of conflict and violence. In chapters on Mexico, Iraq and Switzerland, Wimmer provides extended case studies that support and contextualise this argument.
Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts
Author: Timothy D. Sisk
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781878379566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan power sharing prevent violent ethnic conflict? And if so, how can the international community best promote that outcome? In this concise volume, Timothy Sisk defines power sharing as practices and institutions that result in broad-based governing coalitions generally inclusive of all major ethnic groups. He identifies the principal approaches to power sharing, including autonomy, federations, and proportional electoral systems. In addition, Sisk highlights the problems with various power-sharing approaches and practices that have been raised by scholars and practitioners alike, and the instances where power-sharing experiments have succeeded and where they have failed. Finally, he offers some guidance to policymakers as they ponder power-sharing arrangements.
