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(Estimated Pub Date) the Challenge of Ethnic Conflict to National and International Order in the 1990S: Geographic Perspectives- October 1995

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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. 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…
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