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There is no such thing as Ethnic war

 

            There is no such thing as ethnic war.
            
             Traditionally the phenomena ethnicity is intimately related with the field of .
             anthropology. In terms of emphasis and concern, it came into prominence in the .
             field of International Relations after the World War II era- with the emergence of .
             many new independent countries, and especially after the cold war period- in the .
             pursuit of seeking correlation between instability or conflict in some regional .
             systems with that of ethnic elements of those regional systems. The regions that are .
             considered as ethnic strife-prone are: Western Europe- Ireland, Belgium, .
             Switzerland, France and Spain; Eastern Europe- Yogoslavia and newly independent .
             countries of former Soviet Union; the Mediterranean and the Middle East- Cyprus, .
             Turkey, Lebanon and Israel; Africa- virtually every nation; Asia- from Pakistan to .
             the Philippines; and the Americas- from Canada throughout the Caribbean. Despite .
             the apparent correlation of ethnicity and instability or conflict in these regional .
             systems-there are many important and intricate factors comprising of political, .
             economic and military aspects- that are the very roots of those conflicts. Actually .
             there is no ethnic war except when they are termed as such in order to disguise other .
             warfare- economic, ideological, struggle for power or even covert operation or .
             interference in other states affairs.
             2. Aspects of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Nation State:.
             The word ethnic is derived from the Greek word eethnos, which originally .
             meant heathen or pagan. It was used in this sense until the mid-19th century when it .
             gradually began to refer to eracial characteristics. Around the second World War .
             eethnics came to be used in the United States as a polite term referring to Jews, .
             Italians, Irish and other peoples considered inferior to the dominant groups mainly .
             from British descendent. According to Yelvington- ethnicity is an aspect of social .


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