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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.

  • p. 120 C00123268 Until now, most China scholars have dismissed the Anderson (1983), it is the feeling of…
  • p. 121 …In Ben Anderson's terms, Dr. Sun was engaged in "stretching the short, tight skin of…
  • p. 126 C00123268 References Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflec- Friedman, Edward 1993. "China's North-South Split tions…
  • p. 133 …the ruins of ancient civilizations (Anderson; 1991). The same passions that inflamed modern European Understanding the…
  • p. 135 C00123268 References Anderson, Benedict 1991. Imagined Communities: Hickey, Gerald 1982. Sons of the Mountains, Yale Reflections…
  • p. 182 …House, eds., London: Croom Helm, 1984, J. Anderson, "Nationalist ideology and territory," in pp. 168-190…
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However, many of them have regional loyalties that DR. CRYSTAL: The animosity toward the Vietnam-
Beijing can no longer trust. The economic discrepan- ese remains the most significant source of ethnic ten-
cies between the south and east, on the one hand, and sion. Hopefully, this tortured land will have some time
the north and west, on the other, are extraordinary. You to reconstitute its policy. The Vietnamese have with-
have the Fourth World and Firat World side by side in drawn, the United States seems to have played a
one country. The people in the south are becoming benign role during this recent election, and the UN
very tired of carrying the north. I think Hong Kong peacekeeping force was a success-despite the pre-
may be an issue. I think, in some ways, a military diction of most everyone. Hopefully, we can look for-
buildup may be also for domestic concerns. I do not ward to a time when these inflamed ethnic passions
think people have focused on that issue. will subside.
COMMENT: Dr. Crystal, when you spoke of Cambo-
dia, you focused mostly on the anti-Vietnamese senti-
ment. What are your thoughts on the country's other
ethnic problems?
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