Ethnic and nationalist violence

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 24, Issue , 1998, Pages 423-452

  Brubaker, Rogers ^a   Laitin, David D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Ethnicity; Nationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032338825     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.423     Document Type: Article

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