The foundations of ethnic politics : separatism of states and nations in Eurasia and the world /

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Author / Creator:	Hale, Henry E., 1966-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in comparative politics Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Subject:	Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. Ethnicity -- Political aspects. Ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflict. Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. Ethnicity -- Political aspects. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11813673

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ISBN:	9780511415500 0511415508 9780511414176 051141417X 051141482X 9780511414824 9780511790669 051179066X 9780521894944 0521894948 9780521719209 0521719208
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Hale, Henry E., 1966- Foundations of ethnic politics. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521894944 0521894948

Table of Contents:

The need for a microfoundational theory of ethnicity
A relational theory: ethnicity is about uncertainty, whereas ethnic politics is about interests
A theory of national separatism in domestic and interstate politics
Ethnicity: identity and separatism in the USSR 1917-1991
Central state policies and separatism
Framing: manipulating mass opinion in Ukraine and Uzbekistan
Institutionally mediated interests: the political economy of secessionism
Ethnicity and international integration: the CIS 1991-2007
Quantitative evidence: micro-, macro- and multilevel
Toward a general theory of ethnic conflict and solutions.

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