This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices.

Andrew Finlay is Lecturer in Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin.

1. Introduction 2. Anthropology, Cultural Pluralism and Consociational Theory 3. Essentialism and the Reconciliation of the Liberal State to Ethnicity 4. Is Ethnopolitics a form of Biopolitics? 5. Consociationalism as a form of liberal governmentality: 'single identity work' versus community relations 6. Paradigm Shifts and the Production of 'National Being' 7. No Exit: Human Rights and the Priority of Ethnicity 8. 'A Long Way To Get Very Little': the Durability of Identity, Socialist Politics and Communal Discipline 9. Conclusion