From Voting to Violence: Democratization and

In his new book, Jack Snyder focuses his clear logic on a pressing issue of our times: nationalism.

Jack Snyder is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations and chair of the Political Science Department at Columbia University

List of Maps

8

(1)

Acknowledgments

9

(6)

Transitions to Democracy and the Rise of Nationalist Conflict

15

(30)

Liberal Optimism Confronts the Nationalist Revival of the 1990s

16

(5)

What Are Nationalism and Democratization?

21

(6)

The Link between Democratization and Nationalist Conflict: Some Evidence

27

(4)

Why Democratization Increases the Risk of Nationalist Conflict

31

(8)

Making Choices in Today's World

39

(3)

The Plan of the Book

42

(3)

Nationalist Elite Persuasion in Democratizing States

45

(48)

Elite Persuasion: Promoting Popular Loyalty to the Nation

46

(7)

When and Why Nationalist Elites Are Persuasive

53

(13)

How Nationalist Persuasion Causes Violent Conflict

66

(3)

Four Types of Nationalism: Their Causes and Consequences

69

(14)

Alternative Explanations for the Link between Democratization and Nationalist Conflict

83

(5)

Tracing Causal Relationships and Selecting Cases

88

(5)

How Democratization Sparked Counterrevolutionary German Nationalism

93

(36)

War and Nationalism in Germany, 1864-1945

95

(7)

Alternative Explanations for Germany's Wars and Nationalism

102

(2)

Playing the Nationalist Card in German Democratization

104

(13)

Selling Nationalism in Weimar Germany

117

(12)

Varieties of Nationalism: Civic Britain, Revolutionary France, and Ethnic Serbia

129

(60)

British Civic Nationalism

131

(23)

French Revolutionary Nationalism

154

(15)

Serbian Ethnic Nationalism, 1840-1914

169

(11)

Comparisons, Contrasts, and Causes

180

(9)

Nationalism amid the Ruins of Communism

189

(76)

Competing Explanations for Post-Communist Nationalist Violence

191

(13)

Nationalist Mythmaking and the Yugoslav Breakup

204

(16)

Mass Politics and War in the Caucasus

220

(15)

Media Wars in Post-Communist Russia

235

(15)

Comparing Post-Communist Nationalisms

250

(9)

Civic versus Ethnic Nationalism and the Violence of Post-Communist Transitions

259

(6)

Nationalism and Democracy in the Developing World

265

(48)

Democratization and Nationalist Trajectories in the Developing World

269

(4)

Sri Lanka and Malaysia: Opposite Twins

273

(14)

India: The Race between Civic Institutionalization and Ethnic Mobilization

287

(9)

Rwanda and Burundi: The Perils of Pluralism and Powersharing

296

(10)

Conditions That Dampen Nationalist Conflict in the Developing World

306

(4)

Conclusions

310

(3)

Averting Nationalist Conflict in an Age of Democratization

313

(41)

Weaving a Thick Safety Net for Democratic Transitions

316

(5)

Strategies for Averting Nationalist Conflict

321

(20)

International Impact on Democratization and Nationalist Mobilization

341

(11)

Ethnodemocracy: A Threat to the Democratic Peace

352

(2)

Appendix

354

(7)

Subject Index

361

(18)

Name Index

379

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