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Title	Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention
URL	http://repositories.cdlib.org/igcc/PB/...
Description	In this policy brief, the author argues that ethnic conflict stems from "the fear of the future, lived through the past." Given a fear of future exploitation, the party that is likely to become weaker may choose to fight now rather than later. Ethnic differences are not necessarily a source of interstate conflict. Most states live peacefully side-by-side despite the presence of ethnic ties and cleavages that span their borders. However, pairs in which an ethnic group is a dominant majority in one state but a repressed minority in a second are particularly dangerous.
Authors / Editors	Lake, David A.
Date Published	March 1995
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