Fighting Words

"Two major themes emerge from these excellent case studies. First, bumbling or malicious elites can do major damage when they mishandle language policy -- an issue fraught with danger in multiethnic societies. Second, and more important, farsighted policymakers can craft language policies that lessen the destructive potential of ethnic conflict. The editors should be applauded for focusing attention on an understudied yet crucial tool of conflict management."--Stephen John Stedman, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation and Institute for International Studies, Stanford University "This is a fine successor to Brown and Ganguly's earlier volume, Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asiaand the Pacific, and features international scholarship of the highest order on a vital--and much neglected--subject. The book offers a window on conflict and governance in Asia that will be of inestimable value to students of both comparative and international politics." Kanti Bajpai, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University "This is a fine successor to Brown and Ganguly's earlier volume, *Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asiaand the Pacific*, and features international scholarship of the highest order on a vital -- and much neglected -- subject. The bookoffers a window on conflict and governance in Asia that will be of inestimable value to students of both comparative and international politics."--Kanti Bajpai, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Michael E. Brown is Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Sumit Ganguly is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.