Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Strife: An Interdisciplinary Perspective [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to present an overview of ethnicity, ethnic strife and its consequences, as seen from the perspective of the disciplines of economics, political science, social anthropology and sociology.
Kanbur, Ravi +2 more
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Persistent Nonviolent Conflict With No Reconciliation: The Flemish and Walloons in Belgium [PDF]
Mnookin and Verbeke describe the nonviolent but very serious conflict in Belgium between the Flemish (Dutch) of the North and the Walloons (French) of the South.
Mnookin, Robert, Verbeke, Alain
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Further EU integration will help to stabilise the disruptive forces of nationalism now present in Macedonia [PDF]
Negotiations towards Macedonia’s accession to the EU have been prolonged and often postponed in recent years, mostly due to an on-going dispute with Greece over the country’s name.
Janev, Goran
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Constitution-Making: A Process Filled with Constraint [PDF]
Constitutions are generally made by people with no previous experience in constitution making. The assistance they receive from outsiders is often less useful than it may appear.
Horowitz, Donald L.
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BOSNIAN MODEL OF DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITY: CONDITION FOR STABILIZATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA?
The principle of non-discrimination in modern legal systems, both at national and at regional and global levels of government, is the primary prerequisite for the realization of all other (fundamental) rights and freedoms. The essence of this principle,
Dženeta Omerdić
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الطائفية السياسية في لبنان بين الإرث الاستعماري والتحديات المعاصرة (1943-2023)
يتناول هذا البحث إشكالية الطائفية السياسية في لبنان بوصفها أحد أبرز المعوّقات البنيوية أمام إرساء نظام ديمقراطي فاعل، ويسعى عبر منهجية تاريخية - تحليلية إلى تتبُّع مسار تشكُّل هذه الطائفية وتجذُّرها كمكوِّن أساسي في بنية الحكم، منذ مرحلة الاستقلال عام ...
م.د عداي ابراهيم مجيد حوران
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Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociational Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
S. Hupkes
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State and local governance in Solomon Islands: building on existing strengths [PDF]
In dealing with the question of a future system for governance in Solomon Islands, two options have been put on the table: patch up the existing system or convert the existing provinces into states under a federal system.
Scales, Ian
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Mafia-Owned Democracies. Italy and Mexico as patterns of criminal neoliberalism
The paper is based on two preliminary hypothesis: the first is that when Organised Crime (OC) encounters politics, a third type of system emerges and this is called the mafia.
Fabio Armao
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Separatism in Belgium: Key Factors Governing Walloon-Flemish Discrepancies
The study is devoted to a retrospective analysis of separatism in Belgium and its development given the existing ethnic conflict between Flemish and Walloons. The research depicts the historical and contemporary dynamics of the problem.
Egor A. Sergeev
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