Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework

304 Pages·1981·7.983 MB·English

by  Joseph Rothschild

ETHNOPOLITICS

ETHNOPOLITICS
A Conceptual Framework
JOSEPH ROTHSCHILD
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS/NEW YORK
Joseph Rothschild is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science,
Columbia University
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Rothschild, Joseph.
Ethnopolitics, a conceptual framework.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
I. Ethnic groups-Political activity. 2. Ethnicity.
I. Title.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments IX
Introduction I
I. Ethnicity as a Political Phenomenon in Search of
Scholarly Analysis 11
2. The Emergence of Contemporary Ethnopolitics 33
3. The Political Organization of Ethnicity: Categories,
Patterns, Models, and Criteria 67
4. The Dynamics of lnterethnic Relations,
Engagements, and Confrontations IOI
5. Leaders and Leadership in the Pursuit or the
Containment of Ethnopolitical Conflict: A Typology 137
6. The Interstate Impact of Politicized Ethnicity 173
7. Ethnicity and the State 213
8. Conclusion 247
Selected Bibliography 259
Index 283

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The reading and research for this study was begun in the
summer of 1976 with a "start-up" grant from the Ford Research
Fund of the Dean of Columbia University's School of Interna
tional Affairs (Mr. Harvey Picker). The preparatory work of
that summer enabled me to design and prepare a colloquium
and later a lecture course on the politics of multiethnic states
pedagogic exercises through which I learned at least as much
from my students as they from me. Then came another small
but appreciated grant from the Columbia University Council
for Research in the Social Sciences, followed by a major,
generous Fellowship for Independent Study and Research from
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) during a
sabbatical-leave year, 1978-79.
The Lehrman Institute of New York City (Dr. Nicholas X.
Rizopoulos, Executive Director) arranged two round-table ses
sions in the autumn of 1979 at which earlier drafts of the first
four chapters were constructively criticized by people from
academic and business life and from public affairs. Chapters
five and seven were similarly subjected to helpful discussion at
two seminar sessions of the Fellows of the Research Institute on
International Change of Columbia University in the spring of
X ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1980. The entire manuscript was read and commented on by
Professor Urs Altermatt (Contemporary History) of the Uni
versity of Fribourg, Switzerland; Professor Philip Oldenburg
(Political Science) of Columbia University; and Mr. Yosef Lapid,
a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at
Columbia University. Both the group discussions and the in
dividual readings generated many helpful suggestions and
warnings, which were applied to my final revisions of the
manuscript.
All these institutions and individuals are herewith cordially
and sincerely thanked for their financial and intellectual gen
erosity and their sterling example of academic collegiality.
For speedy and accurate typing and proofreading, I warmly
thank the ever helpful Ms. Penny Yee, formerly the Adminis
trative Assistant of the Research Institute on International
Change at Columbia University, and her competent staff of
secretaries and student assistants. I am also grateful to Messrs.
Richard Coffman and Michael Klecheski for preparing the
Index.
Joseph Rothschild
Columbia University
New York City
February 1981