Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Donald L. Horowitz constructs his theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and inte

To understand ethnic conflict is an ambitious task, but by focusing on the logic and structure of conflict and discussing measures to abate it, Horowitz brings

Donald L. Horowitz's comprehensive consideration of the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence is the first full-scale, comparative study of what the author

Race and Nation is the first book to rigorously compare the various racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. The contributors have honed

This book presents a theory to account for why and when politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another. It does so by examining the cas