Joseph L. Soeters

Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism (eBook, PDF)

The Origins and Dynamics of Civil Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to understand the origin and dynamics of so called intra-national conflicts such as those that have been affecting Europe (Northern Ireland, the Bask Country region in Spain, Corsica in France, the former Yugoslavia and Albania), and a number of countries in the developing world (Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda, Haiti, India, Pakistan and others) and how these conflicts have been invested by terrorist organizations at both national and international levels.
To analyze their emergence and development, the book offers an introduction into nine basic mechanisms analyzed and defined by social sciences disciplines such as sociology, anthropology and political sciences and that are relevant to the understanding of these conflicts. The nine themes are divided into two groups: long term macro issues and short term micro issues and each chapter analyses one of these mechanism or theme. Ultimately this book defines a number of considerations aiming at the development of policies toprevent and stop such conflicts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134213825
• Artikelnr.: 42636483

Autorenporträt

Joseph L. Soeters is a Professor of social sciences and organization studies at the Royal Netherlands' Military Academy, the Netherlands' Naval Academy and the Netherlands' War College; in addition, he is affiliated as a Professor in Organizational Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands as well as TIAS Business School. Between 1999 and 2003 he acted as dean of the Military Academy. His main areas of interest are in the field of international (military) collaboration, post-conflict nation-building including civil-military cooperation, managing diversity and globalisation. He has published some 140 articles and chapters in edited volumes, both in Dutch and English (with some translations in German, Spanish, French and Russian). He (co-) edited five books, both in Dutch and English. He is involved with projects in Eritrea, Bolivia and the Baltic states. In the period 2002-2006 he acts as the Vice-President of the Research Committee "Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution" of the International Sociological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Grid characteristics and group boundaries 3. Waning government, democratic deficit and strategic constellation 4. Violence as lacking control of emotions 5. Violence and culture 6. Rationalization of evil Part II Micro and Short-Term Factors 7. Group building, stereotyping and ideologizing 8. Social mobilisation and leadership 9. Rising expectations, relative deprivation and reduction of power distance 10. The dynamics of conflict itself 11. Conclusions and implications