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Ethnicity, nationalism, membership, identity: conceptual and analytical
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Myths And Misconceptions In The Study Of Nationalism, Rogers Brubaker
Myths And Misconceptions In The Study Of Nationalism, Rogers Brubaker
Rogers Brubaker
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Ethnic And Nationalist Violence, Rogers Brubaker, David Laitin
Ethnic And Nationalist Violence, Rogers Brubaker, David Laitin
Rogers Brubaker
Work on ethnic and nationalist violence has emerged from two largely nonintersecting literatures: studies of ethnic conflict and studies of political violence. Only recently have the former begun to attend to the dynamics of violence and the latter to the dynamics of ethnicization. Since the emergent literature on ethnic violence is not structured by clearly defined theoretical oppositions, we organize our review by broad similarities of methodological approach: (a) Inductive work at various levels of aggregation seeks to identify the patterns, mechanisms, and recurrent processes implicated in ethnic violence. (b) Theory-driven work employs models of rational action drawn from international …