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An exchange over ethnic nationalism's causes, its relationship to modernization and the state, and the merits of partition as a solution to its virulence.
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Authors: James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, Jeremy Weinstein, Richard Rosecrance, Arthur Stein, and Jerry Muller
July/August 2008
Foreign Affairs
An exchange over ethnic nationalism's causes, its relationship to modernization and the state, and the merits of partition as a solution to its virulence.
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