A dominant imperial power can cap sectarian violence while institutionalizing its basis.

Evidence

Ultimately, however, these politics remained constrained by ritualized and mutually recognized claims to communal territory and never approached the scale of violent ethnic cleansing or forced population displacement that was to characterize the religious nationalist conflicts in Cyprus, the Balkans, and Palestine. Part of the reason was the overwhelming economic, political, and military power of successive British governments vis-a`-vis Ireland. While integral to institutionalizing communal rivalry and inequality in the first place, they were also able to limit the resultant violence while ensuring that the basis of the conflict would endure. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2238

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bears on the MOC’s machinery-runs-anywhere thesis: this shows the same state power that manufactures sectarian division can also discipline its violent expression — useful against a pure bottom-up or symmetrical-enemies reading. — connects to: Political institutions perpetuate the violence that founded them; Stable domination requires legitimating ideology plus fragmentation of the ruled. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 588; Institutional accountability constrains violence exercised by authority figures. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2000 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Political institutions perpetuate the violence that founded them #complicates (0.82)
• Stable domination requires legitimating ideology plus fragmentation of the ruled. #corroborates (0.78) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 588
• Imperial capitalism governed by dispersing local power under distant authority #expands (0.78)
• Institutional accountability constrains violence exercised by authority figures. #qualifies (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 2000
• High-capacity regimes’ monopoly on coercion means their own agents dominate the violence that occurs #complicates (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 737
• Imperial powers drew frontiers that maximize future regional conflict #corroborates (0.72) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1614
• Rival rational traditions can destroy each other when joined to military power #qualifies (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 474
• Construction of distant ends forces violence that revolt can avoid. #expands (0.70)