Separation, Assimilation, or Accommodation - by Terrence E Cook (Hardcover)

About the Book

Ethnic violence is rampant, but avoidable. Cook compares and contrasts all major options in ethnic minority policy, including forms of separation, assimilation, or accommodation typically favored by subordinate ethnic groups. Topics include segregation and genocide, emigrations and secessionist struggles, attempts at cultural annihilation, assimilating for individual or collective opportunities, accommodations as minimal concessions in such things as tolerance, special group rights or power-sharing, and accommodations as maximal demands on those same themes. Grounded in current concrete examples, Cook's analysis brings coherence to a confused and often lethal political problem.

Book Synopsis

Ethnic violence is rampant, but avoidable. Cook compares and contrasts all major options in ethnic minority policy, including forms of separation, assimilation, or accommodation typically favored by subordinate ethnic groups. Topics include segregation and genocide, emigrations and secessionist struggles, attempts at cultural annihilation, assimilating for individual or collective opportunities, accommodations as minimal concessions in such things as tolerance, special group rights or power-sharing, and accommodations as maximal demands on those same themes. Grounded in current concrete examples, Cook's analysis brings coherence to a confused and often lethal political problem.

Review Quotes

?An always ambitious and sometimes innovative author whose work is an unusual combination of political theory and international relations, Cook offers a well-reasoned taxonomy of policies by dominant groups toward subordinated ethnic minorities and of their actual and potential reactions to such policies. He arranges a large number of related phenomena in a few well-thought-out categories and in helpful gradation....Highly recommended. Accessible to upper-division undergraduates; particularly helpful to graduate students and beginning researchers.?-Choice

"An always ambitious and sometimes innovative author whose work is an unusual combination of political theory and international relations, Cook offers a well-reasoned taxonomy of policies by dominant groups toward subordinated ethnic minorities and of their actual and potential reactions to such policies. He arranges a large number of related phenomena in a few well-thought-out categories and in helpful gradation....Highly recommended. Accessible to upper-division undergraduates; particularly helpful to graduate students and beginning researchers."-Choice

About the Author

TERRENCE E. COOK is Professor of Political Science at Washington State University, Pullman. He is the author of Nested Political Coalitions: Nation, Regime, Program, Cabinet (Praeger, 2002).