The paper’s aim is to analyze the most important concepts related identity (including ethnic identity), which are causes and factors leading ethno-political conflicts. author seeks give a deeper interpretation of concept identity, considering it in common features or peculiar properties, as well separately highlighting its manifestations political context. study analyzes constituent elements: r...

Social tensions impede social cohesion and public goods provision. They can also be a driving force for more serious conflicts such as civil wars. Surprisingly, however, the emergence of social tensions has only rarely been studied in the literature. In the present contribution a game-theoretic model highlights how reputation concerns and the structure of group cleavages matter for the emergenc...

struggles would transform the world during the twentieth century. Instead, it turned out to be the age of ethnonationalist conflicts. Wars fought in the name of national liberation or ethnic autonomy comprise only one fifth of the wars between the Congress of Vienna (1814) and the Treaty of Versailles (1919). From Versailles to 2001, however, the share of ethnonationalist wars rose to 45 percen...

Increasing concern in the early 1990s over the negative impact of the end of the Cold War strengthened fears that the break-up of the Soviet Union would unleash a barrage of lethal ethnic wars and state failures. The resulting instability, it was argued, would displace millions of people and create a wake of social upheaval unparalleled in this century. The idea of an impending global crisis be...

Ethnic identity is one of the most significant types identities. Meanwhile, some researchers have recently begun to criticise term ‘identity’ as being too excessively associated with political ideologies, lacking operational power and difficult define precisely. Simultaneously, attention has been drawn what can be referred ‘ethnic revival.’ created based on opposition between ‘one’s own’ ‘forei...

Characterised as a bridge between the Arab-Muslim world and Black Africa; and as a melting pot where diverse ethnic, religious and language groups were related together, Sudan continues to baffle observers and analysts by protracted conflicts and crises inflicted on its population. Amid all these, major parties to the conflict accuse each other of sowing the seeds of disintegration and disunity...

Existing research has considered the effect of domestic unrest on repression and the effect of repression on subsequent unrest. However, governments’ strategic incentives to use repression as a targeted measure in order to prevent – as opposed to respond to – unrest altogether are understood little. This thesis analyses armed ethnic conflict as well as government repression targeted at ethnic g...