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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      15 August 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511491627
      9780521792844
      9780521797085
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511491627
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 372 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 372 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in International Relations (84)
      Subjects:
      Sociology: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Sociology
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in International Relations (84)
    Subjects:
    Sociology: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Sociology
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    Why are forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide an enduring feature of state systems? In this book, Heather Rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state building. Political elites have repeatedly used cultural resources to redefine bounded political communities as exclusive moral communities, from which outsiders must be expelled. Showing that these practices predate the age of nationalism, Rae examines cases from both pre-nationalist and nationalist eras: the expulsion of the Jews from fifteenth century Spain, the persecution of the Huguenots under Louis XIV, and in the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide, and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia. She argues that those atrocities prompted the development of international norms of legitimate state behaviour that increasingly define sovereignty as conditional. Rae concludes by examining two 'threshold' cases - the Czech Republic and Macedonia - to identify the factors that may inhibit pathological homogenization as a method of state-building.

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    ‘Rae … offers an important account of state homogenisation and brings strong empirical observations to the attention of International Relations.’

    Source: International Affairs

    '… fascinating …'.

    Source: Journal of Peace Research

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