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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Advancement of Education
According to conventional thinking, the end of the Cold War helped unleash a spate of civil conflicts among ethnic groups whose simmering animosities had been stifled by superpower hegemony. It was commonly accepted that ethnic and religious diversity made countries more prone to civil war, and it was believed that conflicts could be predicted to break out in areas with the strongest ethnic or political grievances.
Yet, research on the causes of civil wars by political scientists David Laitin and James Fearon, Stanford (Calif.) University, refutes these popular theories. "We're finding that none of this...
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