The reason for problems involving religious minorities, argues Apostolov (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva), is the division of the world into nation states. Though most people assume conflict in such places as occupied Palestine, Lebanon, and Bosnia are outbreaks of primal religious conflicts, he finds beneath the surface the collision of state-building programs by different nations. In the territories of the former Ottoman empire, he says, the processes of nation-state building are destroying millennia-old communal structures and identities. c. Book News Inc.