Ethnic Conflicts and Failed States

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Ethnic Conflicts and Failed States

• Matthew Fehrs
• Guest Lecture
• November 21st, 2005
• Introduction to International Relations

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Introduction

• Why is this topic important?
• Definitions
• Causes of civil wars
• Role of intervention
• Prevention and Solutions

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Why is this important?

• Frequency

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Why is this important?

• Frequency

Source Fearon and Laitin, 2003
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Why is this important?

• Frequency

Source Fearon and Laitin, 2003
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Why is this important?

• Frequency
• Spillover

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Why is this important?

• Spillover

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Why is this important?

• Frequency
• Spillover
• Normative Grounds
• Policy Dilemmas

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Definitions

• General
• Motivation
• Ethnic
• Ideological
• Goals
• Secession
• Control

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Types of Civil Wars
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Types of Civil Wars

• Spain
• Ideological
• Control
• Source http//www.history-of flight.net/Aviation
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Types of Civil Wars

• Sudan
• Ethnic Conflicts
• Secessionist

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Causes of Civil Wars

• Security Dilemma in Failed States
• Elite Manipulation of Ethnic Diversity
• Greed
• Grievance

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Security Dilemma in Failed States

• Serbia,
• Croatia,
• Bosnia and
• Herzegovina,
• Montenegro,
• Slovenia,
• Macedonia

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Elite Manipulation

• Slobodan Milosevic
• George Rutaganda

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Greed Conflict Diamonds

• Source Amnesty International

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Grievance
Voting Vs. Violence

• Sources CNN, http//www.needlenose.com/i/swopa/Ra
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Intervention

• Spectrum

Adopted from Nye, 158, Figure 6.1
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Intervention

• Sovereignty vs. Human Rights

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Intervention

• Sovereignty vs. Human Rights
• Schools of Though
• Realist
• Cosmopolitan
• State Moralists

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Intervention

• Sovereignty vs. Human Rights
• Schools of Though
• Realist
• Cosmopolitan
• State Moralists
• Problems

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Prevention

• Separation
• Regional Autonomy
• Statehood

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Prevention

• Separation
• Regional Autonomy
• Statehood
• Outside Guarantees

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Prevention

• Separation
• Regional Autonomy
• Statehood
• Outside Guarantees
• Power Sharing

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Further Interest?

• Websites
• International Crisis Group
• Human Rights Watch
• Alertnet
• Documentaries
• Frontline, Ghosts of Rwanda
• Books
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be
  Killed With Our Families Stories from Rwanda -
  Gourevitch
• A Problem from Hell America and the Age of
  Genocide - Power