Ethnic conflict: concepts and causes; Approaches exploring the causes, escalation and destructive consequences of violent conflicts and political instability of states in South and Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Balkans, and Eastern Europe; Implications of conflicts: changing power relations between different ethnic groups, intra and inter state politics; Strategies of mobilization; Management of conflict; Case studies: historical backgrounds and recent developments.
Texts:
1. Stanley Tambiah, Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia, University of California Press, 1997.
2. Donald, Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1985.
References:
1. Anthony D. Smith, Theories of Nationalism. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
2. Jacques Bertrand, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia, Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
