ABSTRACT
As previously stated, the end of the Cold War has made necessary the development of a new paradigm concerning the phenomena of ethnicity/ ethnic conflict, state-building, and peacekeeping/peace enforcement. In addition to viewing these phenomena as having an existence independent of the Cold War bipolar struggle between East and West, this new paradigm must also explain how they are interconnected with each other such that each has an impact upon the others. The preceding chapters show that this is in sharp contrast to the bulk of the work done in each of these fields of study during the Cold War. Reflecting the Cold War emphasis upon the idea of bipolarity, many of the earlier works discussed in Part I viewed these three phenomena independently of each other while generally seeing them as either products of, or subordinate to, the larger bipolar struggle between East and West. Thus, for example, peacekeeping was generally discussed in the context of conflict containment designed to prevent an escalation of a local conflict into a superpower confrontation as opposed to any discussion of its impact upon the state-building process in states experiencing ethnic conflict.
