World integration and centrifugal forces -- Definitions and dynamics of racial/ethnic mobilization -- Escalation and de-escalation : trends in the data -- Globalization and nonviolent ethnic protest, 1965-1989 -- Global integration and ethnic violence, 1965-1989 -- Group dynamics of ethnic protest and conflict, 1980-1994 -- Globalization in a new era : ethnic violence since 1989 -- Democracy, ethnic violence, and international war -- Models incorporating endogeneity -- Conclusions and future considerations.