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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.

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  • p. 131 …the Netherlands at the transfer of sovereignty in 1949. Indeed, only after Indonesia threatened to invade…
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' Are minorities destined to a more dependant role,
even within their own countries, because of super-
structural changes favoring the dominant groups?
' Or will they achieve some relative sociocultural
autonomy through the adoption of mass technology
and internal communicative competence?
- What effect will globalization have on strengthening
or weakening the regional-local infrastructure on
which European ethnic minority groups depend?
- What role will intractable ethnic conflicts play in
triggering major regional clashes, and how will the
new security architecture of Europe react to such
conflagrations?
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.