Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Updated Edition With a New Preface

Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Donald L. Horowitz constructs his theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination. A groundbreaking work when it was published in 1985, the book remains an original and powerfully argued comparative analysis of one of the most important forces in the contemporary world.

Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. He is also the author of A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (California, 1991), which won the Ralph Bunche Prize of the American Political Science Association, and coeditor of Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience (1992).

List of Tables and Figures
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition

PART ONE: ETHNIC RELATIONS AND
ETHNIC AFFILIATIONS
1. The Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict
2. A Family Resemblance

PART TWO: THE THEORY OF
ETHNIC CONFLICT
3. Conflict Theory and Conflict Motives
4. Group Comparison and the Sources
of Conflict
5. Group Entitlement and the Sources
of Conflict
6. The Logic of Secessions and Irredentas

PART THREE: PARTY POLITICS
AND ETHNIC CONFLICT
7. Ethnic Parties and Party Systems
8. Competition and Change in Ethnic
Party Systems
9. Multiethnic Coalition~
10. Multiethnic Alliances and Parties

PART FOUR: MILITARY POLITICS
AND ETHNIC CONFLICT
11. The Militarization of Ethnic Conflict
12. Paradigms of Military Ethnicity
13. The Effects of Intervention and the
Art of Prevention

PART FIVE: STRATEGIES
OF CONFLICT REDUCTION
14. Ethnic Policy: The Constraints and
the Opportunities
15. Structural Techniques to Reduce
Ethnic Conflict
16. Preferential Policies to Reduce
Ethnic Conflict

Afterword: Ethnic Conflict
and Democracy
Index
Contents