The essays collected in this volume represent nearly two decades of intensive research on ethnicity, nationalism, and violence in the post-Cold War world. Written by a leading scholar of contemporary ethnic conflict Synthesizes, in a creative, user-friendly manner, research on topics that are usually studied in isolation. Coincides with twentieth anniversary of the end of Communist system in eastern Europe Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? In this wide-ranging and readable set of essays, Charles King examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. The end of communism seemed to usher in a period of radical change-an era of