State, Identity and Violence

Introduction Violent Conflict and Control of the State R. Brian Ferguson Commentaries Comments on the State under Siege Eric R. Wolfe Forces of Reaction and Changes of Scale in the World System of States Jospeh A. Tainter The Stat Concept and a World of Politics Under Perpetual Siege Yale H. Ferguson Tribalism, Ethnicity and the State David Maybury-Lewis Culture, Violence, and Ethnic Nationalism: Weighing Alternative Strategies of Explanation and Media Representation Kay Warren Cases Civil War in Peru: Culture and Violence in Historical Perspective Linda J. Seligmann 'Religious' Violence in India: Ayodhya and the Hindu Right Johanna Lessinger The Specter of Superfluity: Genesis of Schism in the Dismatling of Yugoslavia Bette Denich From the Margins to the Center: The Macedonian Controversy in Contemporary Greece Anastasia Karakasidou Liberia; Civil War and th 'Collapse' of the Settle State Diana DeG. Brown Angola and the Fragmentation of the Post-Colonial African State Helio Belik A Cold War Story, The Barbarization of Chad (1966-1991) S. P. Reyna The Cold War, Clans, and Chaos in Somalia: A View from the Ground Catherine Besteman Conflicts vs. Contracts: Political Flows and Blockages in Papua New Guinea Andrew Strathern