Ethnic Cleansing as an Instrument of Nation-State Creation: Changing State Practices and Evolving Legal Norms

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In the early 1990s a new term entered the language of politics: ethnic cleansing. By 1997 that term was commonplace. It appeared regularly not only in media reports but also in the pronouncements of those international [End Page 817] and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) concerned with various ethnic conflicts around the globe—be they in the Balkans (Bosnia and Croatia), the Caucasus (Armenia and Azerbaijan), Africa (Somalia and Rwanda) or Asia (Cambodia). Seemingly, ethnic cleansing was a phenomenon of the post-Cold War era: that, at least, was the impression that one received from most writing on the subject—which as of 1997 remained primarily journalistic.

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