Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Date (from‐to) : 2004/04 -2006/03
Author : Tetsuya SAHARA; 三沢伸生; 関哲行; 武内進一; 大石高志; 石田勇治; 市野川容孝; 山岸智子; 薩摩秀登; 丸川哲史
This study focused on a hypothesis that ethnic cleansing was a modern phenomenon based on a principle that state should be built on an ethnic nation. In three years of research, we have compared cases, both modern and pre-modern, of Europe, Eurasia, Middle East, Africa, East Asia. As a result, we found the trend that ethnic cleansing began in early modern Europe, then it spread over the Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Middle East, Asia, Africa, and former Soviet Union. In this way, we concluded we had proved the validity of our hypothesis. In the course of our study, we have found another impo...