The security dilemma and ethnic conflict
Abstract
The end of the Cold War has been accompanied by the emergence of nationalist, ethnic and religious conflict in Eurasia. However, the risks and intensity of these conflicts have varied from region to region: Ukrainians and Russians are still getting along relatively well; Serbs and Slovenians had a short, sharp clash; Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims have waged open warfare; and Armenians and Azeris seem destined to fight a slow-motion attrition war. The claim that newly released, age-old antipathies account for this violence, fails to explain the considerable variance in observable intergroup relations.
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- Authors
- Posen, B. R.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Posen, Barry R.
- Venue
- Survival
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1993-03
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 27-47
- ISSN
- 0039-6338 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2699
- OpenAlex
- W2098644581
- Cited by
- 1,420
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 39.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Survival (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › European Politics and Security
- Keywords
- security dilemma, ethnic conflict, nationalism, post-Cold War conflicts, intergroup relations, Yugoslav Wars, Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, Croats, Armenians, Russian-Ukrainian relations, Eurasia
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