Understanding Ethnic Conflict provides all the key concepts needed to understand conflict among ethnic groups.
Including approaches from both comparative politics and international relations, this text offers a model of ethnic conflict's internationalization by showing how domestic and international actors influence a country's ethnic and sectarian divisions. Illustrating this model in five original case studies, the unique combination of theory and application in Understanding Ethnic Conflict facilitates more critical analysis of contemporary ethnic conflicts and the world's response to them.
 Taras and Ganguly provide sophisticated but accessible coverage of political and violent conflict among ethnic groups in contemporary states. It is the most flexible text I have found since it covers approaches from both international relations and comparative politics and applies them to cases from advanced industrialized democracies, post-communist societies, and the developing world.-Donna Lee Van Cott, University of Connecticut