Understanding Ethnic Violence - Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

Klappentext An understanding of perpetrators of ethnic violence! applying four models to conflicts in Eastern Europe. Zusammenfassung This 2002 book seeks to identify the motivations of perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models! labeled Fear! Hatred! Resentment! and Rage! gleaned from existing social science literatures. It then applies them to ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe to learn which has the most explanatory value. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Theory: 2. An emotion-based theory of ethnic conflict; 3. Resentment; 4. Fear, hatred, and rage; Part II. Comparisons (The Baltic States in the Twentieth Century): 5. Baltic 1905; 6. In the wake of Barbarossa; 7. The reconstruction of independent states; 8. Across the century; 9. Czechoslovakia 1848-1998; 10. Yugoslavia.

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• Authors: Roger D. Petersen
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521007740
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00774-0
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics