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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 (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. 38 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.