| National
and Ethnic Conflict Regulation
(Spring 2005)
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This course fulfills Category I of the General Education Requirement. Faculty:
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National
and ethnic conflict is widespread; some would say it is ubiquitous.
This course examines how governments respond to national and ethnic
conflict. We will examine management strategies (control, arbitration,
federation and consociation (power-sharing) and eliminationist strategies
(genocide, ethnic expulsion, partition/secession, assimilation/integration).
We shall explore whether the choice of these strategies is predictable,
and what justifications are typically invoked to defend them. We
shall look at particular policies sometimes commended to promote
some of these strategies, such as affirmative action and electoral
system changes, and key legal and political concepts such as self-determination.
Each week one book will be the (critical) focus of attention. Case
materials will include studies of Northern Ireland, Canada, Switzerland,
Iraq, South Africa, Nazi Germany, Ireland, India, Israel/Palestine,
the USA. There will be opportunities for students to focus their
term paper and examination preparation on particular strategies and
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