The security dilemma and ethnic conflict
@article{Posen1993TheSD,
title={The security dilemma and ethnic conflict},
author={Barry r. Posen},
journal={Survival},
year={1993},
volume={35},
pages={83-104}
}The end of the Cold War has been accompanied by the emergence of nationalist, ethnic and religious conflict in Eurasia. However, the risks and intensity of these conflicts have varied from region to region: Ukrainians and Russians are still getting along relatively well; Serbs and Slovenians had a short, sharp clash; Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims have waged open warfare; and Armenians and Azeris seem destined to fight a slow-motion attrition war. The claim that newly released, age-old…
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