Toward a Science of Ethnic Conflict?

Issue Date October 2003
Volume 14
Issue 4
Page Numbers 172-180
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A review of The Deadly Ethnic Riot by Donald L. Horowitz and Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India by Ashutosh Varshney.

About the Author

Hugh Donald Forbes is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He is author of Ethnic Conflict: Commerce, Culture, and the Contact Hypothesis (1997) and is currently working on a book-length study of multiculturalism in Canada.

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