 | Nationalist Passions Subjects: Ethnic conflict -- Political aspects -- Case studies; Ethnic relations -- Political aspects -- Case studies; Conflict management -- Political aspects -- Case studies; Multiculturalism -- Political aspects -- Case studies; Nationalism -- Case studies; Nationalist Passions poses a stark challenge to extreme rationalist understandings of political conflict. Stuart J. Kaufman elaborates a compelling theory of ethnic politics to explain why ethnic violence erupts in some contexts and how peace is maintained in others. Stuart J. Kaufman is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War (winner of the 2003 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order), also from Cornell, and coeditor of The Balance of Power in World History. |
