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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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Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268 References Agnew, John A. Place and Politics: The Geographi- cal Mediation of State and Society. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987. An excellent overview of the impor- tance of location, local context, and sense of place in political and social processes. Includes an extended discussion of the ways in which place affects ethnic identity with examples from the Scottish and Ameri- can contexts. Chisholm, Michael and Smith, David M., eds. Shared Space: Divided Space. Essays on Conflict and Territo- rial Organization. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. A good collection of essays showing how territorial issues come into play in many ethnic conflicts. The essays include case studies in Western Europe, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, South Africa, Australia, and North America. Clarke, Colin; Ley, David; and Peach, Ceri., eds. Geography and Ethnic Pluralism. London: Allen & Unwin, 1984. The essays in this book employ geo- graphical concepts to analyze ethnic and racial ten- sions in Third World and metropolitan contexts. Several of the case studies highlight the importance of distributional issues for ethnic relations. Cohen, Shaul E. The Politics of Planting: Israeli-Pal- estinian Competition for Control of Land in the Jerus- alem Periphery. Geography Research Paper No. 236. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. A fasci- nating case study of the use of planting as a means of asserting control over land. The study demonstrates the importance of the environment in ethnic relations. Gottmann, Jean. The Significance of Territory. Char- lottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1973. A semi- nal study of the ways in which territory reflects and shapes our ideas about politics and society. The study adopts a historical approach to show how the nature and meaning of territory has changed over time. Johnston, R. 1.; Knight, David B.; and Kofman, Ele- onore., eds. Nationalism, Self-Determination and Political Geography. London: Croom Helm, 1988. A collection of essays by geographers that focuses on the links between ethnicity and political geography in a variety of contexts. The essays provide a good sense of the range of issues that geographers consider when studying ethnic conflict. Jordan, Peter. “The Problems of Creating a Stable Political-Territorial Structure in Hitherto Yugoslavia.” In Croatia: An New European State. Edited by I. Crkvenci, M. Klemencic, and D. Feletar. Zagreb: Ure- dnici, 1993; pp. 133-142. A useful assessment of the difficulties of creating mono-ethnic territories in Bos- nia. The study also highlights the disjunction between proposed territorial partitions for Bosnia and preexist- ing functional regions. Knight, David B. “Identity and Territory: Geographi- cal Perspectives on Nationalism and Regionalism.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 72 (4), 1982; pp. 514-531. An important statement on the nature and meaning of territory for ethnonationa1- ist groups. The study demonstrates the significance of the emotional bonds that people develop to territory. ——- and Davies, Maureen. Self-Determination: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1987. A useful bibliography of works on eth- nicity and nationalism, including many written by geographers. Mikesell, Marvin W. “The Myth of the Nation State.” Journal of Geography, 82 (6), 1983; pp. 257-260. A highly accessible overview of the disjunction between political and ethnic pattems in the modern world and the significance of that disjunction for political stabil- ity. ——- and Murphy, Alexander B. “A Framework for Comparative Study of Minority Group Aspirations.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 81 (4), 1991; pp. 581-604. A study of ethnic group relations in comparative prespective, including a pro- posed framework for understanding the relationship 13 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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