This book tests a new approach to understanding ethnic mobilization and considers the interplay of global forces, national-level variation in inequality and repression, and political mobilization of ethnicity. It advances the claim that economic and political integration among the world's states increases the influence of ethnic identity in political movements.
Drawing on a 100-country dataset analyzing ethnic events and rebellions from 1965 to 1998, Olzak shows that to the degree in which a country participates in international social movement organizations, ethnic identities in that country become more salient. International organizations spread principles of human rights, anti-discrimination, sovereignty, and self-determination. At the local level, poverty and restrictions on political rights then channel group demands into ethnic mobilization. This study will be of great importance to scholars and policy makers seeking new and powerful explanations for understanding why some conflicts turn violent while others do not.
| ISBN: | 9780804778626 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 2011 |
| Author: | Susan Olzak |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Social Inequality |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Ethnic studies |
This book tests a new approach to understanding ethnic mobilization and considers the interplay of global forces, national-level variation in inequality and repression, and political mobilization of ethnicity. It advances the claim that economic and political integration among the world's states increases the influence of ethnic identity in political movements.
Drawing on a 100-country dataset analyzing ethnic events and rebellions from 1965 to 1998, Olzak shows that to the degree in which a country participates in international social movement organizations, ethnic identities in that country become more salient. International organizations spread principles of human rights, anti-discrimination, sovereignty, and self-determination. At the local level, poverty and restrictions on political rights then channel group demands into ethnic mobilization. This study will be of great importance to scholars and policy makers seeking new and powerful explanations for understanding why some conflicts turn violent while others do not.
The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization features in the following genres: Social and cultural history, Ethnic studies
The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization was written by Susan Olzak and published by Stanford University Press
The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization has 288 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Social Inequality series