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Divide and Fall?, the first full-length analysis of the post-Cold War revival of ethnic partition, is a major intervention in the study of international relations. Radha Kumar examines the carve-up of Bosnia, comparing it to earlier divisions of Ireland, India, Palestine and Cyprus.

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A well-researched, thorough and readable account. - Shashi Tharoor, Executive Assistant to the Secretary General, UN Elegant and concise... a compelling narrative. - Choice [A] brilliant essay. - Pierre Hassner, Critique Internationale [A] brilliantly compact expose of the twentieth-century diplomat's favourite folly. In this small gem of a book, Kumar places the West's multicultural solution to the Bosnian war in a long, inglorious line of botched partitions. Boyd Tonkin, The Independent An erutite study of partition ... presents a thorough critical history of the war and the various peace plans which laid the path to partition. Gregory Kent, Irish Times

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Radha Kumar is the author of A History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India 1881-1990, from Verso, and co-editor (with Joseph Palau) of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Between War and Peace.

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