journal article

Peoples Against States: Ethnopolitical Conflict and the Changing World System

by Ted Robert Gurr

International Studies Quarterly
vol. 38
pp. 347 - 377
September 1994

Comparative analysis of 50 serious ethnoconflicts that began before and after the end of the Cold War which challenges the "clash of civilizations" thesis and highlights the importance of struggles for power in new and reconstituted states.