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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 Banac, Ivo. The National Question in Yugoslavia: Ori- Erdei, Ferenc, ed. Information Hungary. New York: gins, History,Politics.Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Pergamon Press, 1968. Good on the Hungarian posi- Press, 1984. A good account 9f the various national tion. It is not ultranationalistic while it presents the issues in Yugoslavia. Especially valuable is the analy- Hungarian view. sis of the issues in terms of how and why they came about and the political ramifications thereof. H-obsbawn, E.J. "Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe Today." Anthropology Today. Vol. 8, No. 1, 1992. pp. Cvijic, Jovan. "The Geographical Distribution of the 3-13. An excellent source on issues of ethnicity and Balkan Peoples." GeographicalReview. Vol. 5., May nationalism in contemporary Europe, including East- 1918; pp. 345-361. Important work as it was used to ern Europe. establish boundaries in the Balkans after World War II. It is pro-Serbian and defines Macedonia as South Horne, Donald. The GreatMuseum: The Re-P resenta- Serbian. An excellent example of the use of propa- tion of History.London: Pluto Press, 1984. Good ganda (often using real historical issues) to justify a source on the use of folktales, incidents, and heroes as given nationalist position. historical figures and issues in nationalism. Davies, Norman. God's Playground:A History of Jelavich, Charles and Barbara. The Establishment of Poland Two vols. New York: Columbia University the Balkan National States, 18041920. A History of Press, 1982. One of the best accounts of the issues of East Central Europe. Eds., Peter Sugar and Donald Polish nationalism and history. Frequently referenced. Treadgold. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Vol. 8, 1977. Presents a fairly unbiased history of the Deak, Francis. Hungary at the ParisPeace Confer- Balkan region. One of the best texts on the subject. ence: The DiplomaticHistory of the Treaty of Trianon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. Excel- Konnyu, Leslie. A Condensed Geographyof Hungary. lent work on the Paris Peace Conference. St. Louis: The American Hungarian Review, 1971. An excellent source as representative of ultra-Hungarian Dragnich, Alex N. Serbs and Croats: the Struggle in nationalist views. Yugoslavia. New York. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992; Emmert, Thomas A. Serbian GolgothaKosovo, Mellor, Roy E.H. Eastern Europe: A Geography of 1389. New York: East European Monographs, 1990; Comecon Countries. New York: Columbia University and Morison, W. A. The Revolt of the Serbs Against Press, 1975. Good as a general geography text but not the Turks (1804-1813): Translationsfrom the Serbian very detailed and poor on issues of nationalism and NationalBallads of the Period.Cambridge: Cam- boundary disputes. Very encyclopedic. bridge University Press, 1942. These three books are good sources on the use of Serbian nationalist stories Okey, Robin. Eastern Europe 1740-1 98S: Feudalism as a means to achieve a nationalist end. All represent a to Communism. London: Hutchinson, 1986. One of Serbian nationalist position. Are useful to understand the best books on the subject of the historic evolution the mentality and dimension of Serbian nationalism. of the states of the region. Also provides excellent and unbiased treatment of nationality issues. Deletant, Dennis and Hanak, Harry, eds. Historiansas Nation-Builders:Central and Southeast Europe. Lon- don: Macmillan Press, 1988. One of the best works on Central Europe and the Balkans. It is especially good in its discussions of how intellectuals, and particularly historians, play a role in the rise of nationalism. 37
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