Ethnofederalism is a federal political system in which territorial governance units are explicitly designated as ethnic homelands. It has proven quite workable in multiethnic states from India to today’s Russia, but has gone disastrously wrong in polities like Yugoslavia and the USSR. Nascent ethnofederal structures currently exist also in countries like China and Pakistan, and ethnofederalism has been recommended as one way of rebuilding the multiethnic state of Afghanistan. Due to the immediate geopolitical importance of these countries, understanding whether all ethnofederal states are doomed to follow the bloody path of Yugoslavia or whether ethnofederalism can be an effective part of a strategy of interethnic accommodation is critical. […]
Memo #:
208
Series:
1
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http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pm_0208.pdf
