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1995-10-01a- CIA Conference Report: THE CHALLENGE OF ETHNIC CONFLICT TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER IN THE 1990S GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES 01-Oct-95

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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, dated October 1995, contains the proceedings of a conference on ethnic conflict held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored it. Academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials presented papers on ethnic and territorial conflict in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. They also discussed what these conflicts mean for US policy. The document contains no UFO material.

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References
The primary source of information on all aspects of A convenient list of useful literature on the human and
the geography of the Middle East is the Tubinger Atlas physical geography of the region appears in the
des Vorderen Orients (Wiesbaden, 1968-1993). The section devoted to Southwest Asia and North Africa
several hundred sheets of this serial publication and its in A Geographical Bibliography for American
many supplementary monographs include a wealth of Libraries(Washington, DC: Association of American
information on most of the linguistic and religious Geographers, 1985).
groups in the region.
The London-based Minority Rights Group has issued
The coverage of the Middle East in Atlas Narodov several reports on Middle Eastern topics. No one vol-
Mira (Moscow, 1964) was remarkably explicit at that ume deals adequately with ethnicity and nationality in
time and is still useful as a source of information on the Middle East. However, Carleton Coon's Caravan:
the location of linguistically defined groups. The Story of the Middle East (New York, 1951) is still
useful and stimulating in spite of its early postcolonial
The Middle EastJournaland Asian Bulletin are good date.
sources for information on recent events.
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