1. The following realist literature is essential for those interested in the analysis of ethnic conflict: Kenneth Waltz. Theory of International Politics (Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1979), chapters 6 and 8
2. Robert Jervis, 'Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma', World Politics, no. 2 January 1978, pp. 167-213
3. Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), chapter 3
4. Thomas C. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966, 1976), chapters 1 and 6.
5. See Carl Von Clausewitz, On War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 591-92