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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. 28 …not a given that some people can cooperate and share territory whereas others must be divided…
  • p. 95 …guilty of mistreating Indians who are not cooperative. It may be that Sendero Luminoso has driven…
  • p. 106 …In the Guate- malan case, it has been a cooperative movement with inputs from the Catholic…
  • p. 130 …2018/06/01 C00123268 ' the loyalty, allegiance, and cooperation of ethnic groups whose interests were perceived…
  • p. 142 …Not surprisingly, the League vacil- lated between periods of cooperation with the Con- gress and periods…
  • p. 192 …Active cooperation in this partnership could lay the foundation for full NATO membership. In short, future…
  • p. 193 …We must now extend these habits of cooperation to the East. 183 I I Approved for…
  • p. 197 …UN or the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe—and as long as certain rules…
  • p. 201 …Learning About Conflict and Cooperation Much of the discussion during the past few days has focused…
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. References (continued)
Rugg, Dean S. Eastern Europe. New York: Longman,
1985. Excellent on the German influence (albeit quite
germanophilic in its bias) on the states of Central
Europe. It gives little shrift to issues of the Slavs and
their contribution to the region and is very poor on the
Balkans. .
Sugar, Peter ed., Ethnic Diversity and Conflict in East-
ern Europe. Santa Barbara: University of California
Press, 1980. This is one of the best books ever written
on ethnic issues in Eastem Europe. It is a classic.
Tumock, David:
The Making of Eastern Europe: From Earliest
Times to 1815. New York: Routledge, 1988;
The Human Geography of Eastern Europe. New
York: Routledge, 1989; and
Eastern Europe: An Economic and Political Geog-
raphy. New York: Routledge, 1989. These are good
basic texts with information on the geography,
economy, and politics of Eastern Europe from a
geographical point of view.
White, George W. The Nation-State Ideal and the
Emergence of Modem Hungary. MA Thesis, Geogra-
phy Department, University of Oregon, 1990. One of
the best works on ethnoterritorial issues in Central
Europe. Deals with the concept of territoriality and
ethnic identity using the example of Hungarians and
Hungary.
Wilkinson, Henry Robert. Maps and Politics: a
Review of the Ethnographic Geography of Mace-
donia. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1951.
An excellent work on how maps are used to promote
nationalist claims. It is especially good for its treat-
ment of the Macedonian question.
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