Nationalism and Ethnicity

In Handbook of International Relations, eds. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons. London: Sage.

Today, most political scientists accept that ethnicity is highly relevant to their field. Yet, until the 1990s, International Relations (IR) studies on these topics were few and far between. It was only after considerable delay that the literature vindicated Donald Horowitz’s (1985) comment that ethnicity has "fought and bled and burned its way into public and scholarly consciousness." In fact, it took an extraordinary amount of ethnic conflict in the early 1990s for scholars to begin to grapple with the challenge posed by these topics. Further boosted by the role played by religious and cultural cleavages in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, this initial scholarship has grown into an avalanche of scholarly activity covering various aspects of ethnicity in domestic and international politics.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446247587.n21

DOI: 10.4135/9781446247587.n21

Cederman, Lars-Erik. 2012. “Nationalism and Ethnicity.” In Handbook of International Relations, eds. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons. London: Sage.

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