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| ISBN: | 9780511415500
0511415508
9780511414176
051141417X
051141482X
9780511414824
9780511790669
051179066X
9780521894944
0521894948
9780521719209
0521719208
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers seldom consult psychological research when addressing the most basic question: What is ethnicity? The result is a radical scholarly divide generating contradictory recommendations for solving ethnic conflict. Research into how the human brain actually works demands a revision of existing schools of thought. Hale argues ethnic identity is a cognitive uncertainty-reduction device with special capacity to exacerbate, but not cause, collective action problems. This produces a new general theory of ethnic conflict that can improve both understanding and practice. A deep study of separatism in the USSR and CIS demonstrates the theory's potential, mobilizing evidence from elite interviews, three local languages, and mass surveys. The outcome significantly reinterprets nationalism's role in CIS relations and the USSR's breakup, which turns out to have been a far more contingent event than commonly recognized"--Back cover.
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| Other form: | Print version: Hale, Henry E., 1966- Foundations of ethnic politics. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521894944 0521894948
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