Book Review of Correspondence: The Dynamics of Internal Conflict
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Simons, Anna
Mueller, John
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2001
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Spring 2001
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MIT Press
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John Mueller’s recent argument about the banality of “ethnic war” contains a curious glitch.1 Mueller would lead us to believe that the large-scale killings in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s “could happen just about anywhere” (p. 67), without acknowledging that what took place in both countries has occurred repeatedly in each. By failing to adequately consider past events, he then cannot satisfactorily explain why those he labels “thugs” preferentially target only certain categories of fellow citizens, or how interethnic violence can lead to what he is so anxious to dismiss—namely, ethnic war.
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Book Review
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International Security, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Spring 2001), pp. 187–192
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