Religious Minorities, Nation States and Security

Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva, Switzerland.

• List o f Maps -- List o f Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Goals, Approaches and Limits o f this Study -- Methodology -- PART Is TERMS OF ANALYSIS -- 1 Terms of Analysis and Problems of Definition -- Religious Minorities -- International Security and Religious Minorities -- 2 The Eastern Mediterranean: Religious Minorities in the Post-Ottoman Space -- Common Origins? -- The Ottoman Heritage -- A Region without a Sense o f Regionalism -- PART II: FIVE CASES OF CONFESSIONAL MINORITIES IN THE BALKANS AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN -- 3 The Copts -- Historical Identity -- Participatory Egyptian Nationalism -- The Present Condition o f the Minority and Communal Violence -- Conclusion -- 4 The Palestinian Christians -- Historical Identity -- Participatory Nationalism among the Christian Palestinians -- Present Circumstances o f the Community -- Responses to the Risk o f Marginalisation: Extremists and Mediators -- Conclusion -- 5 Lebanon: Constitutive Communities or Minorities? -- Patterns o f Historical Identity -- The Political System, Contending Claims on Nationhood, and the Civil War -- The International Dimension -- The Taif Settlement -- Conclusion -- 6 The Pomaks: A Transborder Religious Minority -- Multi-Level Group Identity -- Pomaks in the Nation States of the Balkans -- Conclusion -- 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Improbable Nation -- Historical Identity -- The Civil War (1992-95) -- The External Involvement -- The Dayton Peace Agreement -- The Sandjak -- Conclusion -- PART III: THE POTENTIAL FOR CONFLICT AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS -- 8 The Potential for Communal Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Traditional Identity versus the Nation State -- The External Factor and Community - Nation State Relations -- Communal Mobilisation as a Problem in Security -- Conclusion -- 9 Possibilities for Accommodation -- Political Pluralism -- External Intervention -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.