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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. 9 …how various groups have reacted to rising terri- tion as well as numerous territorial processes that…
  • p. 18 …thus closely linked to the second core terri- territorial status quo for granted. torial issue: the…
  • p. 19 …ment initially focused on individual language rights The latter encompasses laws that set aside some terri…
  • p. 28 …have valid links between their identity and their terri- tory and have the expectation of rights…
  • p. 32 …and socioeconomic status as they relate to terri- toriality. Dr. Murphy referred to the ability of…
  • p. 33 …Although a statistical correla- suggest giving the old provinces more political-terri- tion existed between region…
  • p. 50 …want Krajina as a piece of geographical terri- assigning identities to local populations who often did…
  • p. 52 …Sovereignty over European terri- taposition of two ethnic groups, a common feature of tory was initially…
  • p. 66 …That may mean some of the kinds of terri- quasiautonomous nature. Despite this devolution, a torial…
  • p. 76 …National identity and terri- perceived as their homeland, and this has frequently torial identity have been…
  • p. 79 …Russia today in terms of its internal terri- nomically seceding. Is the center giving power to…
  • p. 153 …The real crux of the terri- The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka is primarily between torial…
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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.
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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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