Ethnic Conflict

Question 1

Primordialism

Answer 1

people are born with their ethnicity: (race, religion, name)

ISAAC

Question 2

Instrumentalism

Answer 2

ethnicity can be changed based on what gets the person the most advantage
(POSNER, ROPER)

Question 3

Limitation of Instrumentalism

Answer 3

If ethnicity is more emotional, how can you qualify the violence of ethnic conflict?

Question 4

POSNER-Instrumentalism

Answer 4

If you have big ethnic groups, emphasize cleavages to “hate the other guys”
If you have a lot of little groups, de-emphasize the cleavages to bring people together to vote for you

Question 5

Yugoslavia

Answer 5

Primordialism
Yugoslav Drama-
there were many ethnic groups
conflict was inevitable
The Road to Nowhere- under Tito, ethnicities were repressed, but when he died, they came out and ethnic conflict erupted