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Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict by
Jack L. Snyder
A trenchant analysis of the attempts to mediate
the transition from oppression to freedom, and a warning of the
potentially disastrous challenges that face burgeoning
democracies. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, many
proclaimed the triumph of liberal democracy as they watched
democratization sweep through formerly authoritarian countries in
Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East Asia. Yet the 1990s turned
out to be a decade marked by chronic nationalist conflict, and the
sense of democratic triumph turned to frustration. In From
Voting to Violence, Jack Snyder shows how democratization can
actually exacerbate nationalist fervor and ethnic conflict if the
conditions permitting a successful transition are not in place.
Arguing that international organizations can cause conflict rather
than averting it in their rush to establish democratic governments
and punish outgoing leaders, he prescribes policies that will make
transitions less dangerous and allow fledgling democracies to
flourish. In the light of such tragic examples as Weimar Germany
and contemporary Bosnia--each drawn into a spiral of ethnic hatred
and civil war by political leaders manipulating nationalist
sentiments--From Voting to Violence questions the sometimes rash
optimism of liberal democracy that would rush to democracy at the
cost of freedom.
About the Author
Jack Snyder is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of
International Relations, chair of the political science department
at Columbia University, and chair of the Committee on
International Peace and Security of the Social Science Research
Council.
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