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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.

  • p. 9 …He also dis- cusses how various groups have reacted to rising terri- torial nationalism. Approved for…
  • p. 18 …The issue of sense of territory is thus closely linked to the second core terri- torial…
  • p. 19 …The latter encompasses laws that set aside some terri- tory for a given ethnic group. The…
  • p. 28 …The link between territory, identity, and terri- toriality becomes especially dynamic when discord exists between two…
  • p. 32 …Murphy made about ethnic mobili- zation and socioeconomic status as they relate to terri- toriality. Dr…
  • p. 33 …suggest giving the old provinces more political-terri- torial significance within the state. Then their citizens…
  • p. 50 …The Serbs want Krajina as a piece of geographical terri- tory, and the Serbs who live…
  • p. 52 …Sovereignty over European terri- tory was initially determined by church and dynastic settlements following periodic warfare…
  • p. 66 …That may mean some of the kinds of terri- torial policies that I suggested. It also…
  • p. 76 …National identity and terri- torial identity have been intimately interrelated, and a rising sense of national…
  • p. 79 …The big- gest threat to Russia today in terms of its intemal terri- torial integrity is…
  • p. 153 …The real crux of the terri- torial problem is one of scale because the homoge- neity…
  • p. 184 …Nevertheless, many geographers will agree that one of the most important characteristics of‘terri- tory is…
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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