Dominant ethnicity: From minority to majority

Nations and Nationalism

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 743-767

  Kaufmann, Eric ^a   Haklai, Oded ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alawi; Dominant ethnicity; Dominant minority; Iraq; Majority group; Postcolonial nationalism

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; DEMOCRATIZATION; DOMINANCE; ETHNOPOLITICS; MINORITY GROUP; NATIONAL IDENTITY; NATIONALISM; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL RELATIONS; SOVEREIGNTY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 55149094992     PISSN: 13545078     EISSN: 14698129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2008.00362.x     Document Type: Article

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