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100			_aRa'anan, Uri (ed.)
245		0	_aEthnic resurgence in modern democratic states
260			_aNew York
260			_bPergamon Press
260			_c1980
300			_a270p.
520			_aFor almost three decades, a mere handful of isolated analysts, including the editor of this volume, demonstrated reluctance to accept as gospel the facile assumption that modernization somehow would cause ethnic self-assertion and conflict to fade away. Despite the temptation to succumb to the fashionable belief that state sovereignty was about to dissolve into regional, transnational, and supranational institutions and associations of various kinds, the lonely skeptics pointed out that, if anything, indications pointed in the opposite direction - i.e. toward the emergence of substate actors capable of breaking down existing polit- ical units into smaller entities. In the view of this minority, such actors would be motivated by aspirations of a primarily ethnic nature, and the more developed regions, particularly the West, would prove especially susceptible to this trend. Today the beliefs articulated by such voices few and sometimes unpopular - have become well-nigh axiomatic in the light of irrefutable evidence concerning ethnic resurgence in Europe and North America, that appears on the pages of almost every current newspaper. With a selective forgetfulness that is typical of the profes- sion, however, not many care to remember how recent their own conversion has been to this point of view. (Incidentally, no normative implications should be read into the points noted in this paragraph. The few who anticipated the developments of the present era of ethnicity may or may not have welcomed them.) Since 1967, the editor of this volume has devoted a considerable segment of his teaching to an attempt to bring some conceptual and semantic order into existing chaos, particularly in the English language, with regard to the problematic area of ethnic and nationality issues. (The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy has encouraged such efforts, since its leadership comprehends fully that a plethora of factors must be analyzed and taught if a modern graduate curriculum in international affairs is to be viable.)
650			_aMinorities.
700			_aRoche, John P.(ed.)
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