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Why do ethnic groups adopt violent means? In the 1990's, ethnicity emerged
as the principle source of organized violence around the world. Ethnic wars were no longer internal conflicts between substate actors; instead they challenged state sovereignty and taxed the international community's ability to respond. Efforts to understand ethnic conflict remain divorced from the study of systemic change and the declining authority, capacity, and legitimacy of weak multiethnic states. This work proposes that the phenomenon of ethnic violence must be understood through a multilevel approach and that finding a solution to ethnic violence is possible only if we have a clear understanding of the sources that spark such violence in the first place.
The Three Images of Ethnic War identifies the causes of ethnic war at three levels of analysis -- the group, the state, and the international. These are the three images of ethnic war. This book places the outbreak of violence within context of the state and the international system in which the violence unfolds. Hanlon examines three violent ethnic wars in Yugoslavia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Iraq. Yugoslavia's violent ethnic wars, the war over Nagorno-Karabakh, and the violent conflict between Kurds and Arabs in Iraqi Kurdistan demonstrate that ethnic violence is a complex and multifaceted occurrence. Hanlon argues that the numerous reasons why groups adopt violent means can only be understood through a multilevel framework of the three images of ethnic war and the interrelationship among them.
In the recent on-line issue of Foreign Policy, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, of CISA's Irregular Warfare Department, discusses the strategic importance of the ideology behind the violence of al Qaeda and the Taleban, and how the United States must focus on the intangible battlefield.
Sebastian Gorka, "The Surge that Could Defeat Al Qaeda," Foreign Policy. (August 10, 2009).
Michelle Van Cleave, "Foreign Spies are Serious. Are We?" The Washington Post. (February 8, 2009): B03.
Querine Hanlon, "Globalization and the Transformation of Armed Groups" in Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency, Jeffrey H. Norwitz, ed. (Newport: Naval War College Press, 2008).
Thomas Marks, "The Maoists in Nepal: Strategies of Subversion and Subterfuge" Faultlines Volume 19, (April 2008).
Michelle Van Cleave, "Counterintelligence and National Strategy" School for National Security Executive Education, (April 2007).
Sebastian Gorka, "Invocation of Article 5-Five Years On" NATO Review No. 2, (Summer 2006).
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