journal article

The Ethnic Challenge to International Security

by Ted Robert Gurr

Futures Research Quarterly

pp. 11 - 23
Spring 1997

Explores the nature of the challenges ethnicity poses to the state system. He argues that large numbers of the world's people identify primarily with a people as opposed to a state system, and because of this, do not share a commitment to preservation of the state system as it is currently constituted. He concludes with four general principles for governments and international organizations that hope to manage and transform future ethnopolitical conflicts.