[I. Historical and theoretical explorations] 1. Ethnonationalism in the first world : the present in historical perspective / Walker Connor. 2. Political theories and the explanation of ethnic conflict in the Western world : falsified predictions and plausible postdictions / Arend Lijphart. 3. Interfaces of regionalism in Western Europe : Brussels and the peripheries / Lawrence Scheinman -- [II. Case studies] 4. Continuity in change : Spanish Basque ethnicity as a historical process / Davydd J. Greenwood. 5. Splitting the difference : federalization without federalism in Belgium / Aristide R. Zolberg. 6. Social class of ethnic activists in contemporary France / William R. Beer. 7. Bretons and Jacobins : reflections on French Regional ethnicity / Suzanne Berger. 8. French-English relations in Canada and consociational democracy / Donald V. Smiley. 9. Interethnic relations and the language issue in contemporary Canada : a general appraisal / Jacques Brazeau, Edouard Cloutier. 10. Ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland : international aspects of conflict management / David E. Schmitt. 11. Scottish nationalism, North Sea oil, and the British response / Milton J. Esman. 12. Ethnic Political conflict in South Tyrol / Peter J. Katzenstein. 13. Does the consociational theory really hold for Switzerland? / Jurg Steiner, Jeffrey Obler. 14. Some causes of political change in modern Yugoslavia / Susan Bridge -- [III. Concluding observations] 15. Perspectives on ethnic conflict in industrialized societies / Milton J. Esman
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Western world Ethnic minorities Nationalism Conference proceedings
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Essays originally presented at the conference sponsored by the Western Societies Program of the Center for International Studies at Cornell University
