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Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apart

  • Written by Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apartWhat does it look like when a country's identity falls apart?Interior Design/shutterstock.com

What happens to a country when its core national identity – its preferred image of itself in terms of race or religion – doesn’t match its demographic reality?

Say a Sunni-dominated Arab country is actually a majority Shi'a Arab country;...

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