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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. 18 …Turning to the first issue, the tained, and how territory is used to advance particular habit…
  • p. 19 …As a quently used tactic to advance particular ethnoterrito- result, the internal territorial structure of Belgium…
  • p. 39 …origin. 'The Hungarians saw the Czech majority as advanced and civi- lized as themselves. The Hungarian…
  • p. 58 …as advanced industrial societies become more com- Despite the current difficulties with the European plex, diverse…
  • p. 60 …representative politics, which follows the advance of- Granted that the European Union exists in part to…
  • p. 62 …The the advanced capitalist world economy. In light of the key instrument is the degree of…
  • p. 97 …The policy, grounded in the assumption that sets the stage for potential conflict with the non…
  • p. 111 …The thinly disguised Army state and no realistic proposal has been advanced that coup of January…
  • p. 124 C00123268 As noted above, other groups to watch outside the advanced nationality in China); and Mongol…
  • p. 130 C00123268 the loyalty, allegiance, and cooperation of ethnic Christianity advances, both in the mountains and also…
  • p. 132 …In sum, the end of ideology as a factor in Communist forces consistently advanced, supplied national…
  • p. 138 …advance their interests by a wide variety of University of Minnesota means. These include the formation…
  • p. 140 …It also notes the cific genre de vie. means by which ethnic groups seek to advance…
  • p. 144 …advanced than those previously ruled by redrawing of the political map. The 1956 Act, how- the…
  • p. 161 …I am only A comprehensive case for the value of the demo-here advancing a comparative…
  • p. 182 …the Nation State System," J. A. Laponce, Languages and Their Territories, Tor- Political Geography: Recent Advances…
  • p. 191 …everywhere, including the date individual rights, as well as national and ethnic most advanced West European…
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