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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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- p. 50 …Muslim Serbs and Muslim Croats never defined them-
selves as a people. They never said that…
- p. 51 …If the
standing why the Albanians never claimed Kosovo. Serbs really attempt to annihilate the Kosovar…
- p. 62 …be taught as a second foreign language, never of relative insulation from other countries' problems
as…
- p. 78 …It never majority? Should the leftover colonials learn the
was. It might be useful, instead, to…
- p. 91 …As such, the
ability of states to get from their people what they
want has never…
- p. 92 …much as they fight with other groups, and the same The peoples of Africa never chose…
- p. 93 …I never would have sent them in the
about election monitors. Is that sufficient to tide…
- p. 109 …the provisions of this agreement were never imple-
mented, and Kurdish autonomy became a dead issue…
- p. 110 …only by those remaining in Lebanon, that prospect was
never accepted by Muslims. The absence of…
- p. 112 …field, several cities, and a population of never known democracy. Other hopes can be enter-
15…
- p. 114 …But in this region we can never say never, as evi-
Discussant: Mildred Berman denced by…
- p. 116 …Although Sovietologists could never have predicted
Introduction: The Disuniting of China the rapid events that dismantled…
- p. 119 …The Chinese, in my opinion, never take China for
granted, culturally, politically, or otherwise. This is…
- p. 120 …Few
have questioned how the Han became the 94-percent
National identities, although imagined, are never…
- p. 121 …be one reason why these categories have never been China is made crystal clear from his…
- p. 123 …The Uighur will known as a "Ku Cong" nationalist, seeking recogni-
never become independent as long…
- p. 133 …such actions are sometimes trag- conflict should never be justified. Intervention, as we
edies writ in…
- p. 141 …guarantee Sociocultural identities in South Asia have never been
some semblance of fair representation in the…
- p. 147 …Although never posing a tional sentiment in regard to the controversial destruc-
serious challenge to Congress…
- p. 157 …The people in Kashmir are never represented the Sikh rank and file.
alienated to a degree…
- p. 166 …These are the people who
have never had any form of internationally recognized
status and who…
- p. 169 …as we should not underestimate the state boundaries in
illegal immigrants and never get counted.
159
- p. 177 …The French nation never managed to incorpo-
not co-opt civilians speaking German, Italian, and rate…
- p. 186 …still hate Turks is that there has never been context is a complicated array of things…
- p. 204 …In alluding to the statement by
You are never going to have total agreement on mov…
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its relations with Turkey. Thus, in the event of a widen- By continuing to legitimize Serbian aggression, we
ing war, we may find Serbia and Greece isolated and are once again letting the people of Eastern Europe
Turkey, Bulgaria, and Albania backed by Russia, know that we do not support democratic governments
Croatia, Hungary, and many Middle Eastern States. It or independent nation-states in that region. We should
is doubtful that we could do anything under those cir- therefore not be surprised that a greater and far more
cumstances in terms of any involvement, serious war may be looming on the horizon. The
alienation of the Turks and of Turkey is a far more
Although one can paint other scenarios, one thing is serious issue in the realm of geopolitical reality than
clear-the West made a grave error in allowing and the support of Serbian delusions of grandeur. We risk
promoting Serbian aggression. Some say it is too late not only a great Balkan war but also one that may
to do anything. That is an absurd position. In 1940 one result in Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey changing their
could say that Germany had won the war and that it national borders. Inaction in Bosnia has also resulted
was too late to do anything to free Poland or Czecho- in a massive rise of anti-Western and anti-American
slovakia. The Russians proved otherwise. Serbia is not sentiment throughout the Middle East and other Mus-
a great power and need not be feared. If after three lim areas. The United States should rethink its posi-
years of vast military superiority the Serbs still have tion on Serbia.
not won, they would be easy to push back. The main-
tenance of the embargo against the Bosnian Muslims
should be lifted and airpower should be used to liber-
ate Bosnia. It is certainly not too late to do that.
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