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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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C00123268 References Agnew, John A. Placeand Politics: The Geographi- the links between ethnicity and political geography in cal Mediation of State and Society. Boston: Allen & a variety of contexts. The essays provide a good sense Unwin, 1987. An excellent overview of the impor- of the range of issues that geographers consider when tance of location, local context, and sense of place in studying ethnic conflict. political and social processes. Includes an extended discussion of the ways in which place affects ethnic Jordan, Peter. "The Problems of Creating a Stable identity with examples from the Scottish and Ameri- Political-Territorial Structure in Hitherto Yugoslavia." can contexts. In Croatia:An New EuropeanState. Edited by 1. Crkvenci, M. Klemencic, and D. Feletar. Zagreb: Ure- Chisholm, Michael and Smith, David M., eds. Shared dnici, 1993; pp. 133-142. A useful assessment of the Space: Divided Space. Essays on Conflict and Territo- difficulties of creating mono-ethnic territories in Bos- rial Organization.London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. A nia. The study also highlights the disjunction between good collection of essays showing how territorial proposed territorial partitions for Bosnia and preexist- issues come into play in many ethnic conflicts. The ing functional regions. essays include case studies in Western Europe, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, Knight, David B. "Identity and Territory: Geographi- South Africa, Australia, and North America. cal Perspectives on Nationalism and Regionalism." Annals of the Association ofAmerican Geographers, Clarke, Colin; Ley, David; and Peach, Ceri., eds. 72 (4), 1982; pp. 514-531. An important statement on Geography and Ethnic Pluralism.London: Allen & the nature and meaning of territory for ethnonational- Unwin, 1984. The essays in this book employ geo- ist groups. The study demonstrates the significance of graphical concepts to analyze ethnic and racial ten- the emotional bonds that people develop to territory. sions in Third World and metropolitan contexts. Several of the case studies highlight the importance of and Davies, Maureen. Self-Determination: An distributional issues for ethnic relations. InterdisciplinaryAnnotated Bibliography.New York: Garland, 1987. A useful bibliography of works on eth- Cohen, Shaul E. The Politicsof Planting: Israeli-Pal- nicity and nationalism, including many written by estinian Competitionfor Control of Land in the Jerus- geographers. alem Periphery.Geography Research Paper No. 236. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. A fasci- Mikesell, Marvin W. "The Myth of the Nation State." nating case study of the use of planting as a means of Journal of Geography, 82 (6), 1983; pp. 257-260. A asserting control over land. The study demonstrates highly accessible overview of the disjunction between the importance of the environment in ethnic relations. political and ethnic patterns in the modern world and the significance of that disjunction for political stabil- Gottmann, Jean. The Significance of Territory.Char- ity. lottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1973. A semi- nal study of the ways in which territory reflects and and Murphy, Alexander B. "A Framework for shapes our ideas about politics and society. The study Comparative Study of Minority Group Aspirations." adopts a historical approach to show how the nature Annals of the Association ofAmerican Geographers, and meaning of territory has changed over time. 81 (4), 1991; pp. 581-604. A study of ethnic group relations in comparative prespective, including a pro- Johnston, R. J.; Knight, David B.; and Kofman, Ele- posed framework for understanding the relationship onore., eds. Nationalism,Self-Determination and Political Geography.London: Croom Helm, 1988. A collection of essays by geographers that focuses on 13
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