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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.

  • p. 18 …Questions are asked about the role of Quebec in Canadian national politics, the political tactics of…
  • p. 19 …because the manipulation of the environment is a fre- quently used tactic to advance particular ethnoterrito…
  • p. 39 …the justification for current demands on both sides. ‘ The Hungarians saw the Czech majority as advanced…
  • p. 58 …Despite the current difficulties with the European Monetary Regime (ERM) and the post—Maastricht negotiations, the…
  • p. 60 …the opening up of Europe to democratic ideals and representative politics, which follows the advance of…
  • p. 62 …sectors of the advanced capitalist world economy. In light of the new immigration, the stereotyping of…
  • p. 97 …and other non-Indian groups to advance common interests. The objectives of newly emerging Indian militancy…
  • p. 111 …has been advanced that could result in the separation of the two peoples, the Arab-Israeli…
  • p. 124 …especially the Uighur, Kazakh, Tajik, and Hui; Korean (the most educated and economically advanced nationality in…
  • p. 130 …As Christianity advances, both in the mountains and also in distinct urban and lowland mainstream communi…
  • p. 132 …the moun- tains of Xieng Khuang and Nam Thain northern Laos, Communist forces consistently advanced, supplied…
  • p. 138 …sought to advance their interests by a wide variety of means. These include the formation and…
  • p. 140 …It also notes the means by which ethnic groups seek to advance their interests and by…
  • p. 144 …more advanced than those previously ruled by the less progressive princes, such‘ as the Nizam of…
  • p. 161 …the demographic com- munity, and sometimes “corrections” are advanced by demographers outside the country. The only…
  • p. 182 …Brunn, “Future of the Nation State System,” Political Geography: Recent Advances and Future V. A. Kolosov…
  • p. 191 …any- where threaten stability everywhere, including the most advanced West European democracies. What happens in Central…
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