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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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Rugg, Dean S. Eastern Europe. New York: Longman, basic texts with information on the geography,
1985. Excellent on the German influence (albeit quite economy, and politics of Eastern Europe from a
germanophilic in its bias) on the states of Central geographical point of view.
Europe. It gives little shrift to issues of the Slavs and
their contribution to the region and is very poor on the White, George W. The Nation-State Idealand the
Balkans. Emergence ofModern Hungary. MA Thesis, Geogra-
phy Department, University of Oregon, 1990. One of
Sugar, Peter ed., Ethnic Diversity and Conflict in East- the best works on ethnoterritorial issues in Central
ern Europe. Santa Barbara: University of California Europe. Deals with the concept of territoriality and
Press, 1980. This is one of the best books ever written ethnic identity using the example of Hungarians and
on ethnic issues in Eastern Europe. It is a classic. Hungary.
Turnock, David: Wilkinson, Henry Robert. Maps and Politics: a
Review of the EthnographicGeographyof Mace-
The Making of Eastern Europe: From Earliest donia. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1951.
Times to 1815. New York: Routledge, 1988; An excellent work on how maps are used to promote
nationalist claims. It is especially good for its treat-.
The Human Geographyof Eastern Europe. New ment of the Macedonian question.
York: Routledge, 1989; and
Eastern Europe: An Economic and PoliticalGeog-
raphy.New York: Routledge, 1989. These are good
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