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Notes review paper assignmentChapter 13Violent conflict and interventionIntroductionIn retrospective looking back at the global south and the transition between authority and power it seems remarkable howlittle were either enabled by violence or caused violenceThe transition from colonial rule to interdepence often were negotiations and were civil and had alto of civil participationIn some cases the transition was violentOne reason why colonial powers wanted to keep rule was because plantation economy and the divide of capital and/or ofassets would not equate to the amount of capital made to the extent colonialism brought themShift from power was also dictated by political change in the metropolePolitical change and wars for decolonization often led to other warsIn several other states keeping peace after decolonization was fragile as separatists demanded change and to reformsocietySummarize the chapter●Important pointsThis chapter looks at patterns of violent conflicts since decolonizationIt discusses shifts in how scholars and policymakers have understood such conflictsUses an analytical approach to help develop peace building regimesSomething that led to conflict was the previous ruling powers willingness to leave their statusPlantation economies with a predominantly white ruling class in the enacted violence in some global south statesTransitions from colonial rule in many cases gave way to conflicts related to political exclusion within the newlyindependent statesViolence directed against ethnic minorities occured as part of state formation and nation-building policies in numerousnew states of the global southPitted ethnic groups in the geographic periphery against the center over autonomy●ClaimsConflicts related to race and ethnicity and identity politics has underlying patternsSystems built of hierarchical ethnic systems and having a ruling class and a lower class appeared to be more fragileespecially when related to race
●InformationIdentity politics*Kenya plantations and decolonization wars1974 independence in Angola,Guinea-Bissau, and MozambiqueIn 1972 Uganda’s president Idi Amin forcibly expelled all indians this allowed him to seize assets of a prosperous tradinggroup and perhaps more importantly harness an African national identity as a source of legitimacy for his rule●arguments/main points of the authorDiscuss the positive aspect of the chapter●What author does well●Good points made by author●Insightful observations●What was useful