Separation, Assimilation, or Accommodation: Contrasting Ethnic Minority Policies

by Terrence E. Cook

Overview

Ethnic violence is rampant, but avoidable. Cook compares and contrasts all major options in ethnic minority policy, including forms of separation, assimilation, or accommodation typically favored by subordinate ethnic groups. Topics include segregation and genocide, emigrations and secessionist struggles, attempts at cultural annihilation, assimilating for individual or collective opportunities, accommodations as minimal concessions in such things as tolerance, special group rights or power-sharing, and accommodations as maximal demands on those same themes. Grounded in current concrete examples, Cook's analysis brings coherence to a confused and often lethal political problem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275978259
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/30/2003
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

TERRENCE E. COOK is Professor of Political Science at Washington State University, Pullman. He is the author of Nested Political Coalitions: Nation, Regime, Program, Cabinet (Praeger, 2002).

Table of Contents

Figures
Preface
Separations as Segregations: Strategies of the Stronger Ethnic Group
Separations as Separatisms: Strategies of the Weaker Ethnic Group
Assimilations as Controls: Strategies of the Stronger Ethnic Group
Assimilations as Integrations: Strategies of the Weaker Ethnic Group
Accommodations as Minimal: Strategies of the Stronger Ethnic Group
Accommodations as Maximal: Strategies of the Weaker Ethnic Group
How to Get Out of a Zero-sum Game: The Case of the Kashmir Conflict
Transformational Game Theory in Conflict Resolution
References
Index