Deprivation, Violence, and Identities: Mapping Contemporary World Conflicts
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Date
2003-10-03
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Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Abstract
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many anticipated the advent of a “new world order” of global
capitalism, or even an “end to history,” implying that conflicts based on ideology and competing
national interests and identities would lose their political relevance in the post-Cold War era. Quite to
the contrary, the 1990s saw an upwelling of ethnic and religious violence in locations as disparate as the
former Yugoslavia, Central Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Prior to the events of 9/11, the
structure of international relations had still made it possible to imagine that such conflicts had local roots
and were thus exclusively of regional consequence. The events of 9/11, however, rendered undeniable
the global significance of local ethnic and religious-based differences. It is now an inescapable
conclusion that social identities are everywhere threatened from within by local and ethnic formations,
conditioned in their response by the prerogatives and ambitions of the state and its actors, and
transformed from without by the global flows of capital, popular culture, and transnational ideologies
and populations. As features of the contemporary world, deprivation, violence, and identities are but the
local manifestations of the conflict between global systems of thought, power, and authority.
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Keywords
deprivation, violence, identity