Global convulsions : race, ethnicity, and nationalism at the end of the twentieth century / edited by Winston A. Van Horne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Race and biology -- The Bell Curve : a cross-century tradition concerning race and intellect -- Race in history -- Concepts of nationalism in history -- Cultural foundations of ethnonationalism : the role of religion -- Cultural nationalism and "internationalization" in contemporary Japan -- Religion and identity in Northern Ireland -- Israel and Palestinian statehood -- Palestinian statehood -- Whither the Kurds? -- The relentless pursuit of the national state : reflections on Soviet and post-Soviet experiences -- Nationality questions in the Baltic : the Lithuanian example --Ethnonationalism and the disintegration of Yuglosavia -- China and the containment of ethnonationalism -- Political ethnicity and state-building in Nigeria -- Canada and the challenge of the Quebec independence movement.