Competing Theories of Ethnic Conflict

SHEVCHUK, Zinaida. Competing Theories of Ethnic Conflict. In The 4th ECPR Graduate Conference, Graduate School of Jacobs and the University of Bremen, Germany. 2012.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Competing Theories of Ethnic Conflict

Autoři

SHEVCHUK, Zinaida

Vydání

The 4th ECPR Graduate Conference, Graduate School of Jacobs and the University of Bremen, Germany. 2012

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ne

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

Typological theorizing, internal conflict, Caucasus.

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Anotace

V originále

This study presents a conceptual framework for understanding the conflict in one of the most dangerous regions of the world – the Caucasus. Theories are a good starting point for understanding the causes of the conflict and provide comprehensive analysis. However the lack of conceptual consensus is damaging to scholarly efforts to advance our understanding of armed conflict. This study tests the ability of four analytical categories – ethnic, political, ideological and strategic/territorial - to explain the outbreak of ethnic conflict in Caucasus. The study sheds a considerable light on the significance of the different aspects and illustrate their change in time. This breadth of explanatory power is the theory’s chief claim to its status as a paradigm superior to another theoretical approach.