Understanding ethnic violence
Subtitle: fear, hatred, and resentment in twentieth-century Eastern Europe
By: Roger D. Petersen.
Series: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Ethnic conflict -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.; Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.; Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "This book seeks to identify the motivations of individual perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models, labeled Fear, Hatred, Resentment, and Rage, gleaned from existing social science literatures." "The empirical chapters apply these four models to important events of ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Each historical chapter generates questions about the timing and target of ethnic violence. The four models are then applied to the case, to learn which does the best job of explaining the observed patterns of ethnic conflict." "The findings challenge conventional wisdom, in that the Resentment narrative, centered on a sense of unjust group status, provides the best fit for a variety of cases. While Fear, Hatred, and Rage do motivate hostile actions, Resentment pervasively appears to inflame ethnic animosity and drive outcomes in the timing and pattern of action."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-290) and index.