This analysis of the recent national revivals and conflicts in Eastern Europe offers a thorough application of theories of nationalism. Both microsociological and macrosociological theories are discussed.
"In Khazaria in the 9th and 10th Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe states in this peri…
"In Khazaria in the 9th and 10th Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe states in this peri…
Scope and content: "In Khazaria in the 9th and 10th Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe …
"In Khazaria in the 9th and 10th Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe states in this peri…
"In Khazaria in the 9th and 10th Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe states in this peri…
'Symbolic politics', that is how existing beliefs about neighboring ethnic groups are used to justify violence, are traced in case studies arguing the following conditions as essential for communal violence: use of a preexisting reservoir of myths; the fear of being swamped by a…
Ethnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an enigma. What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors?Stuart Kaufman rejects the notion of permanent "a…
Kaufman begins by surveying the stories various reporters and analysts have told about the conflict in Yugoslavia. From these stories he unravels some underlying assumptions, then gleans insights from each type of analysis, and combines them into a more comprehensive explanation…