Аннотация:Ethnic conflict can be analyzed in terms of center-periphery relations only where ethnic groups are concentrated geographically. It would seem redundant to employ the concept in application to vertical intergroup relations in the same location where social class or ethclass will suffice.1 Peripherality has been defined by Stein Rokkan as the subordination of a group to the authority of a geographical center or core upon which the periphery is dependent with little control over its fate and possessing minimal resources for the defense of its distinctiveness against outside pressures.2 The key characteristics of peripheries, he summarizes, are distance, difference, and dependence in at least one of the three domains of behavior: political decision making, cultural standardization, and economic life. The concept is reminiscent of Jeffrey Ross' distinction between minority and ethnicity except that Ross defines the latter as exactly the type of group which controls at least its own naming or definition.3
