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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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  • p. 9 …Looking at ethnic conflicts from a comparative basis and viewing consequences for the United States and…
  • p. 30 …Intemational Boundaries Research Unit. Cohen, S. B. “Global Geopolitical Change in the Post-Colonial War Era…
  • p. 35 …Most serious for Europe and the United States, how- ever, are those that deal with territorial…
  • p. 75 …i Most autonomous units of the Soviet federation declared their sovereignty immediately following the declarations of…
  • p. 77 …Durham, UK: " University of Durham International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU) Press (Territory Briefing 2), 1992. ideologiya…
  • p. 85 …Liberia ECOMOG, the Economic Community of West Afri- can States (ECOWAS) peacekeeping force, has sup- pressed…
  • p. 87 …In Zaire, the inevitable politi- cal transition may yield an explosion of long-sup- pressed ethnic…
  • p. 95 …When these issues affect mestizo peasant farmers and laborers, as they often do, Indians may unite…
  • p. 106 …The Trinidadian press is quite con- cerned with the general upswing in violence. Is it your…
  • p. 118 …Not only have the “official” minorities in China begun to more strongly assert their identities, pressing…
  • p. 192 …A united and prosperous European Community, they believed, could be protected from the economic and political…
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.