Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts (2nd edition)

This second edition of Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts, reviewed here in its e-book format, is an updated and hugely expanded version of the original edition, also reviewed in these columns (RR 2004/014). The editor is again Joseph Rudolph, a professor of political science at Towson University in Maryland and author of several books on ethnicity, nationalism and related topics, notably Politics and Ethnicity: A Comparative Study (Rudolph, 2006). Although billed as an encyclopaedia, this book, as with the 2003 original, is more of a collection of essays on specific ethnic conflicts and does not set...