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from Harvard in 1949 with a degree in geography and went on to join the US Foreign Service. He spent the majorityis thirty-year career as a diplomat getting, to khow, in depth, the peoples and cultures of the Middle East and South Asia.
His last assignment (1981-84) was Ambassador to Nepal. Since then he has traveled in Central Asia, Tibet, and China; South Africa and Malawi; New Zealand, Iceland, and the Yukon Territory; Central America and Peru; and Europe. He is an avid collector of old trip reports, photos, anecdotes, and memories.
In his new book, Culture Wars and the Global Village, Coon draws upon this extensive firsthand experience, and a lifetime study of science and anthropology to examine important questions about the nature of conflict between groups of people. Culture Wars and the Global Village provides a new way of looking at the conflicts that keep breaking out in places like the Balkans, Central Africa, and the Middle East.
Coon observes that most of these mini-wars arise from the human propensity to identify with culturally defined groups; and most of these groups have been competing with neighboring groups for many generations. Some modern states, particularly the USA, have largely succeeded in overcoming this kind of cultural
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