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(Estimated Pub Date) the Challenge of Ethnic Conflict to National and International Order in the 1990S: Geographic Perspectives- October 1995
Central Intelligence Agency · 1995-10-01 · 205 pages · text from the file's own layer
This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, numbered RTT 95-10039 and dated October 1995, presents the proceedings of a conference held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored the conference. In it, academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials examined ethnic conflict by region, covering Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. The report also discusses what these conflicts mean for US policy. It does not deal with UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
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Muslim Serbs and Muslim Croats never defined them-
selves as a people. They never…
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standing why the Albanians never claimed Kosovo.
Of…
- p. 62 …be taught as a second foreign language, never
as the first, and d_) less information and…
- p. 78 …It never
was. It might be useful, instead, to view the Soviet
Union as a colonial…
- p. 91 …As such, the
ability of states to get from their people what they
want has never…
- p. 92 …The peoples of Africa never chose what their bound-
aries should be—they were imposed by…
- p. 93 …I never would have sent them in the
first place. I thought our job was to…
- p. 109 …Most of
the provisions of this agreement were never imple-
mented, and Kurdish autononiy became a…
- p. 110 …those remaining in Lebanon, that prospect was
never accepted by Muslims. The absence of believable
data…
- p. 112 …the vast majority of them—who have
never known democracy. Other hopes can be enter-
tained…
- p. 114 …But in this region we can never say never, as evi-
denced by the recent gasp…
- p. 116 …Although Sovietologists could never have predicted
the rapid events that dismantled the USSR at the
beginning…
- p. 119 …The Chinese, in my opinion,‘ never take China for
granted, culturally, politically, or otherwise. This is…
- p. 120 …What is going on here?
National identities, although imagined, are never arbi-
trary but arise in…
- p. 121 …be one reason why these categories have never been
challenged. The very Confucian practice of the…
- p. 123 …These ethnic identities are “imagined” in Ben Ander-
son’s (1983) terms, but they are never…
- p. 133 …Inter-
vention in the cause of the exacerbation of ethnic
conflict should never be justified. Intervention…
- p. 141 …Sociocultural identities in South Asia have never been
fixed. The corporate mobility of particular groups,
some…
- p. 147 …Although never posing a
serious challenge to Congress, the Mahasabha was
particularly influential in the period…
- p. 157 …were always moderate and that the extremists
never represented the Sikh rank and file.
One fundamental…
- p. 166 …These are the people who
have never had any form of internationally recognized
status and who…
- p. 169 …ways to enter as
illegal immigrants and never get counted.
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- p. 177 …The -French nation never managed to incorpo-
rate the adjacent French-speaking Belgian Walloons
or the…
- p. 186 …The reason
Armenians still hate Turks is that there has never been
reconciliation. Similarly there will…
- p. 204 …You are never going to have total agreement on mov-
ing boundaries. In fact, hundreds of…
However, many of them have regional loyalties that
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DR. CRYSTAL: The animosity toward the Vietnam-
Beijing can no longer trust. The economic discrepan- ese remains the most significant source of ethnic ten-
cies between the south and east, on the one hand, and sion. Hopefully, this tortured land will have some time
the north and west, on the other, are extraordinary. You to reconstitute its policy. The Vietnamese have with-
have the Fourth World and First World side by side in drawn, the United States seems to have played a
one country. The people in the south are becoming
very tired of carrying the north. I think I-long Kong
may be an issue. I think, in some ways, a military
benign role during this recent election, and the UN
peacekeeping force was a success—despite the pre-
diction of most everyone. Hopefully, we can look for-
buildup may be also for domestic concerns. I do not ward to a time when these inflamed ethnic passions
think people have focused on that issue. will subside.
COMMENT: Dr. Crystal, when you spoke of Cambo-
dia, you focused mostly on the anti-Vietnamese senti-
ment. What are your thoughts jon the count1y’s other
ethnic problems?
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.