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The Intrastate Security Dilemma: Ethnic Conflict as a `Tragedy'?

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  • Paul Roe

    (Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth & Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI))

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This article seeks to pull together the main body of work on the security dilemma and that concerning the relatively recent move in international relations in reconceptualizing and operationalizing the concept away from its usual interstate setting. First, it will discuss some of the ways in which the security dilemma has been defined. Second, it will concentrate on the work of those writers who have conceived of `ethnic security dilemmas' and `insecurity dilemmas' occurring at the intrastate level. Third, it will suggest some possible answers to the problems that this body of writing has raised. Fourth, it will both introduce and further develop the concept of the `(inter-) societal security dilemma' as a possibly more productive way of explaining the outbreak of ethnic violence. Moreover, throughout the article the question as to if and when ethnic conflict can be seen as a `tragedy' in Herbert Butterfield's sense of the word will be addressed.

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  • Paul Roe, 1999. "The Intrastate Security Dilemma: Ethnic Conflict as a `Tragedy'?," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 36(2), pages 183-202, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:joupea:v:36:y:1999:i:2:p:183-202
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    1. Max Schaub, 2014. "Solidarity with a sharp edge: Communal conflict and local collective action in rural Nigeria," HiCN Working Papers 183, Households in Conflict Network.
    2. Vüllers, Johannes, 2011. "Fighting for a Kingdom of God? The Role of Religion in the Ivorian Crisis," GIGA Working Papers 178, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.

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