"Result of the twelfth annual convention of the International Studies Association which was held March 17-20, 1970, in San Juan, Puerto Rico."

Includes bibliographies.

Pt.1. Leo Kuper On Theories of Race Relations -- Ch.2. Harmannus Hoetink / Identity and Somatic Norm Image -- Joel C. Edelstein / Pluralist and Marxist Perspectives on Ethnicity and Nation-Building -- Ch.4. Robert H. Mast / Some Theoretical Considerat ions in International race Relations -- Locksley Edmonson / Caribbean Nation-Boulding and the Internationalization of Race: Issues and Perspectives -- Ch.6. Cynthia H. Enloe A Commentary -- Ch.7. Gordon K. Lewis / A commentary -- Pt.2. William J. Foltz / Ethnicity, Status, and Conflict -- Ch.9. Frederick C. Barghoorn / Soviet Dissenters on Soviet Nationality Policy -- Ch.10. Rene Lemarchand / Status Differences and Ethnic Conflict: Rwanda and Burundi -- Ch.11. Jeffrey E. Butler / Social Status, Ethnic Division, and Political Conflict in New Nations: Afrikaners and Englishmen in SouthAfrica -- Ch.12. Anthony P. Maingot A Commentary -- Pt.3. Conflict -- Ch.13. Walter E. Freeman -- Functions of Ethnic Conflict and Their Contributors to National Growth -- Ch.14. David P. Forsythe and J. L. Taulbee / The Palestinians and the Arab States -- Ch.15. Albert E. Levak / Provincial Conflict and Nation-Building in Pakistan -- Ch.16. Cynthia H. Enloe / Foreign Policy and Ethnicity in "Soft States": Prsopects for Southeast Asia -- Ch.17. Roberta E. McKown / The Impact of Education on Ethnic Groups in Ghana and Kenya -- Ch.18. Joseph B. Landis -- Racial Polarization and Political Conflict in Guyana -- Ch.19. Margaret E. Galey / Effects of Ethnic Conflict on National Development: A Commentary -- Pt.4. New and old States -- Ch.20. Wendell Bell / Ethnicity, Decisions of Nationhood, and Images of the Future -- Ch.21. Paul F. Power / Conflict and Innovation in Ulster -- Ch.22. Harry Coblentz / Internal and External Conflicts of an American Indian Community -- Ch.23. Janet Merrill Alger / The Impact of Ethnicity and Religion on Social Development in Revolucionary America -- Ch.24. Pedro Gonzalez Blasco / Modern Nationalism in Old Nations as a Consequence of Earlier State-Building: The Case of Basque-Spain -- Ch.25. Helen I. Safa / Ethnicity and Nation-Building: A Commentary -- The Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index