Understanding Third World Politics

A possible answer to the question of why inter-ethnic inequality is not sufficient to produce nationalism, and why dominant grou ...

had given them to become dominant in many walks of life. Most signifi- cantly in the history of the secession attempt, the first ...

in the federal government. With the demise of electoral politics in 1966, Ibos were dominant at the national level through the m ...

when opportunities for economic advancement through migration, from which the Ibos had formerly benefited, were discouraged, fir ...

economic exploitation or relative deprivation. Birch is arguing largely on the basis of evidence from developed countries, but h ...

of the circumstances under which a new, small state can be born and survive. Yet the demand is clearly not constant, so the fact ...

are undoubtedly significant and should inform further investigations. External intervention can take the form of moral support, ...

Cultural minorities are not homogeneous societies. Like all societies they are socially stratified. Different classes in a perip ...

competition was a major factor in the descent into civil war (Melsom and Wolpe, 1970). Ethnic conflict reflects competition betw ...

secession and used armed force in the attempt to prevent it. Punjabi bureau- crats resented the promotion of Bengalis as a respo ...

culture or linguistic or ethnic identity. These demands are reinforced by the phenomenon of economic disparities which are a nec ...

10 Instability and Revolution Introduction The number of military coups, civil wars, communal conflicts and other manifestations ...

2 million lives and displaced more than 4 million others. Colombia has experienced nearly 40 years of civil war. In 1994 some 80 ...

political stability. Outside the Marxist tradition, instability is seen as deviancy, a slip on the path to progress. It is an ab ...

with less than full democracy. Consider, for example, the reference by Diamond to political restructuring in Malaysia, which has ...

acknowledging that what is destabilizing to one political structure may not be to another. For example, a refusal of leaders to ...

Organized crime is increasing, and banditry in the provinces is extensive. Violence is on the increase – in December 2001 alone, ...

further weaken them because of clientelist relationships. Class, or even group, consciousness is difficult to create as a basis ...

across class lines, further reducing political consciousness (Wolfe, 1968). Political action also risks severe repression by the ...

When those new roles recognized in the modern economic context fail to receive recognition in the traditional context, they come ...