Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. He is also the author of A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (California, 1991), which won the Ralph Bunche Prize of the American Political Science Association, and coeditor of Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience (1992).

• List of Tables and FiguresPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionPART ONE: ETHNIC RELATIONS ANDETHNIC AFFILIATIONS1. The Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict2. A Family ResemblancePART TWO: THE THEORY OFETHNIC CONFLICT3. Conflict Theory and Conflict Motives4. Group Comparison and the Sourcesof Conflict5. Group Entitlement and the Sourcesof Conflict6. The Logic of Secessions and IrredentasPART THREE: PARTY POLITICSAND ETHNIC CONFLICT7. Ethnic Parties and Party Systems8. Competition and Change in EthnicParty Systems9. Multiethnic Coalition~10. Multiethnic Alliances and PartiesPART FOUR: MILITARY POLITICSAND ETHNIC CONFLICT11. The Militarization of Ethnic Conflict12. Paradigms of Military Ethnicity13. The Effects of Intervention and theArt of PreventionPART FIVE: STRATEGIESOF CONFLICT REDUCTION14. Ethnic Policy: The Constraints andthe Opportunities15. Structural Techniques to ReduceEthnic Conflict16. Preferential Policies to ReduceEthnic ConflictAfterword: Ethnic Conflictand DemocracyIndexContents