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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 The second question is: how do we evaluate the poli- cies of individual states in relation to minority groups, in particular, tenitorial policies? There was an extended discussion in the paper of the Basque situa- tion, where power has been devolved to regions of a quasiautonomous nature. Despite this devolution, a continuation of fairly strong anti-Madrid bias can still be seen in voting pattems in Spain. At the same time, overt violence has been reduced. This raises questions about the impact of state policies that acknowledge the existence of ethnic concentrations and use territo- rial policies to incorporate ethnic groups in the deci- sionmaking process. It may mean—as has happened to a degree in the Basque case—that bringing a sepa- ratist group into the decisionmaking structure may marginalize the more violent elements of the group. General Discussion QUESTION: With regard to ethnic issues, what poli- cies are likely to best promote US interests in the region? , _ __ DR. MURPHY: The United States has an interest in a stable and economically vital Europe. This would sug- gest that it is in the US interest to promote the kind of policy options that lead to stability from an ethnic standpoint. That may mean some of the kinds of terri- torial policies that I suggested. It also means that the 4 United States should promote the idea of a European Community that does not just look like a much more centralized community but one that actually facilitates the kinds of regional linkages that Dr. Williams has outlined. We should be not be scared of the fact that the nation-state is changing. It is in the US interest to promote the kind of regional arrangements that will lead to a more stable and outward~looking Europe. 58 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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