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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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Contents
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Scope Note iii
Overview 1
Part I: Framing the Discussion
Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict 5
Dr. Alexander Murphy
Identity, Territory, and Self-Determination: Factors Underlying 15
Potential National and International Conflict
Dr. David B. Knight
Part II: Regional Manifestations
Eastern Europe 25
Ethnic and Territorial Conflicts in Eastern Europe
Dr. Ronald Wixman
Discussant: Dr. Thomas Poulsen
Western Europe and Canada 42
Ethnic Conflict Within Western Europe
Dr. Colin H. Williams
Discussant: Dr. Alexander Murphy
Former Soviet Union 59
Ethnoterritorial Conflict in the Former Soviet Union
Dr. Robert Kaiser
Discussant: Dr. Ronald Wixman
Africa 74
Geographic Factors in Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Dr. Harm J. de Blij
Discussant: Dr. Rex Honey
Latin America 86
The Ethnic Challenge to National and International
Order in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
During the 1990s: Geographical Perspectives
Dr. Gary S. Elbow
Discussant: Mr. Mac Chapin
Middle East 99
Ethnicity and Nationality in the Middle East
Dr. Marvin W. Mikesell
Discussant: Dr. Mildred Berman
Southeast and East Asia 108
Ethnicity Theory and Ethnic Conflict in China:
The New Politics of Difference
Dr. Dru Gladney
Geographic and Ethnographic Perspectives on Ethnic 120
Conflict in Southeast Asia
Dr. Eric Crystal
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