CPO 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: List Of Ongoing Armed Conflicts, Industrial Revolution, Cultural Identity
13 Apr 2016
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The historical context of the modern nationalist movements: impact of the industrial revolution (1760 1830, emergence of the middle classes , role of empire in europe (recognition of otherness ) Rise of modern nationalist movements embedded in western europe: comparatively little in eastern europe, even less in latin america or asia during this period. Fearon and laitin: ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war. Previous work assumed that higher levels of ethnic diversity would be associated with high levels of ethnic conflict: diversity does not necessarily mean tension/grievances, grievances and tension do not necessarily lead to conflict/violence. Baldwin and huber: ethnic diversity and public goods provisions: The core goal is to explore the relationship between the ability of the state to provide public goods to citizen and the existence/level of inequality between different groups. Standard measures of ethnic diversity : ethno-linguistic fractionalization (elf) (group based, cultural fractionalization (cf) (language based)
