The roots of intense ethnic conflict may not in fact be ethnic: Categories, communities and path dependence

Archives Europeennes de Sociologie

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-232

  Ruane, Joseph ^a   Todd, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Indexed keywords

ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNICITY;

EID: 12944276868     PISSN: 00039756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003975604001432     Document Type: Article

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