From voting to violence democratization and nationalist conflict

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Transitions to Democracy and the Rise of Nationalist Conflict. Liberal Optimism Conforms the Nationalist Revival of the 1990s. What Are Nationalism and Democratization? The Link between Democratization and Nationalist Conflict: Some Evidence. Why Democratization Increases the Risk of Nationalist Conflict. Making Choices in Today's World. The Plan of the Book -- 2. Nationalist Elite Persuasion in Democratizing States. Elite Persuasion: Promoting Popular Loyalty to the Nation. When and Why Nationalist Elites Are Persuasive. How Nationalist Persuasion Causes Violent Conflict. Four Types of Nationalism: Their Causes and Consequences. Alternative Explanations for the Link between Democratization and Nationalist Conflict. Tracing Causal Relationship and Selecting Cases -- 3. How Democratization Sparked Counterrevolutionary German Nationalism. War and Nationalism in Germany, 1864-1945. Alternative Explanations for Germany's Wars and Nationalism.

Playing the Nationalist Card in German Democratization. Selling Nationalism in Weimar Germany -- 4. Varieties of Nationalism: Civic Britain, Revolutionary France, and Ethnic Serbia. British Civic Nationalism. French Revolutionary Nationalism. Serbian Ethnic Nationalism, 1840-1914. Comparisons, Contracts, and Causes -- 5. Nationalism amid the Ruins of Communism. Competing Explanations for Post-Communist Nationalist Violence. Nationalist Mythmaking and the Yugoslav Breakup. Mass Politics and War in the Caucasus. Media Wars in Post-Communist Russia. Comparing Post-Communist Nationalism. Civic versus Ethnic Nationalism and the Violence of Post-Communist Transitions -- 6. Nationalism and Democracy in the Developing World. Democratization and Nationalist Trajectories in the Developing World. Sri Lanka and Malaysia: Opposite Twins. India: The Race between Civic Institutionalization and Ethnic Mobilization. Rwanda and Burundi: The Perils of Pluralism and Powersharing.

Conditions That Dampen Nationalist Conflict in the Developing World. Conclusions -- 7. Averting Nationalist Conflict in an Age of Democratization. Weaving a Thick Safety Net for Democratic Transitions. Strategies for Averting Nationalist Conflict. International Impact on Democratization and Nationalist Mobilization. Ethnodemocracy: A Threat to the Democratic Peace.

"In From Voting to Violence, Jack Snyder shows how democratization can actually exacerbate nationalist fervor and ethnic conflict if the conditions permitting a successful transition are not in place.".

"Snyder grounds his argument in modern political history, drawing upon four definitive types of nationalism from four different countries: civic Britain of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, revolutionary France, Serbia from 1840 to 1914, and pseudo-democratic Weimar Germany. It is by the light of these examples that Snyder examines the sometimes rash optimism of liberal democracy that would rush to democracy at the cost of freedom."--BOOK JACKET.