Mild Asymmetry and Ethnoterritorial Overlap in Charge of the Consequences of Multinationalism. A Country Study of Constitutional Asymmetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sahadžić, Maja

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“…Hence, many authors claim right from the outset that a multinational federation is not possible at all in divided societies since 'federal bargaining' under these conditions will either end up in a strong unitary state as can, in particular, be seen from the swing of the pendulum from Boris Jelzin's efforts of democratization back to authoritarian centralization under Vladimir Putin in the Russian Federation (Kembayev, 2018;Kremyanskaya, 2019), or the struggles for autonomy under a communist one-party state such as China (Buhi, 2019). Or, so the argument goes, also in post-conflict situations federalization in combination with power sharing institutionalizes competition and conflict, leading to a permanent blockade of the entire political system and a high risk for renewed inter-group violence as can be seen not only from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Marko, 2013;Sahadžic, 2019) as a paradigmatic case.…”

Section: Terminological Conundrums and The Nationalist Identity Fictionmentioning

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What is Wrong with the Concept of Multinational Federalism? Some Thoughts about the Interrelationship between the Concepts of (Multi-)Nationalism, Federalism, Power Sharing and Conflict Resolution

Marko

2020

Ethnopolitics

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This article deals with the theoretical and methodological problems in any effort to conceptualize a model of multinational federalism. This is shown through an exemplary review of scholarly literature frequently ending up in nothing else but tautological regressions and/or ideologically driven dichotomizations of basic terms and concepts such as ethnic group, community, nationality, minority or (co-)nation when using these terms interchangeably, in particular, through combinations such as 'minority-nation', in order to get hold of the phenomenon of overlapping social, political and cultural diversities. These problems of conceptualization, symbolized through the perennial question 'What 'is' a nation or minority?' in order to be able to establish an allegedly objective or universal definition, are trapped in what I call the ethnic-civicnational oxymoron following from political theories of nationalism and liberalism based on normative-ontological approaches. In order to overcome the mentioned theoretical and methodological trap(s) based on the confusion of epistemology and ontology, this article argues for the necessity to overcome ideological dichotomizations through the method of triangulation. In the end, based on this method, I try to develop an institutional model of multicultural instead of multinational federalism which allows from the very beginning to take the empirical processes of ethnification and/or de-ethnification as major drivers for 'multiple diversity governance' into account. This de-construction of the concept of multinational federalism and the reconceptualization of a model of multicultural federalism also allows to overcome the theoretical battles in power sharing literature between so-called accomodationists and integrationists, based on the dichotomization of their policy prescriptions.

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Section: Terminological Conundrums and The Nationalist Identity Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is Wrong with the Concept of Multinational Federalism? Some Thoughts about the Interrelationship between the Concepts of (Multi-)Nationalism, Federalism, Power Sharing and Conflict Resolution

Marko

2020

Ethnopolitics

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“…2.3.3., (b) politika je podjednaka onoj u tč. 2.2., (c) mogući učinak ustaljenje je asimetrične federacije sastavljene od postojećih dvaju entiteta, a unutar Federacije BiH hrvatskih kantona, koji ne mogu promicati interese Hrvata u BiH izvan tih kantona (v Sahadžić, 2019)…”

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Diplomacija u granicama prava

Padjen

2020

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Glavni je problem priopćenja vanjska politika Republike Hrvatske (RH) u vezi s Ustavom BiH jer nedovoljno pridonosi rješavanju društvenih, političkih, ekonomskih, kulturnih itd. slabosti Bosne i Hercegovine (BiH) koje mogu i trebaju biti rješavane unutar prava. Ta je politika nedovoljno uspješna jer nije državna, nego strančarska. Matica politike je narodnjačka, tj. etnička. Alternativa zanemaruje činjenicu da je RH, kao stranka Daytonskoga mirovnog sporazuma, čiji je dio Ustav BiH, internacionalnim pravom ovlaštena zahtijevati od drugih stranaka, uključujući BiH, da poštuju i primijene Sporazum. Sporedni je problem priopćenja nedostatna znanstvena spoznaja glavnog problema. Posljedica je pomanjkanja interesa pravnih znanstvenika u RH i previda pravnih slabosti politike. Temeljna je svrha priopćenja priprema istraživačkog projekta unutar integralne pravne znanosti dopunjene izvornom pravnom dogmatikom i prilagođenom pravnopolitičkom analizom. Hipoteze, koje su dijelom ispitane, pripisuju politiku uvjetima te predviđaju razvoj problema ako se politika ne promijeni i ako se prromijeni u skladu s prijedlogom izloženim u priopćenju.

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Power-Sharing and Party Politics in the Western Balkans

Hulsey

Keil

2020

Power-Sharing in Europe

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Mild Asymmetry and Ethnoterritorial Overlap in Charge of the Consequences of Multinationalism. A Country Study of Constitutional Asymmetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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What is Wrong with the Concept of Multinational Federalism? Some Thoughts about the Interrelationship between the Concepts of (Multi-)Nationalism, Federalism, Power Sharing and Conflict Resolution

What is Wrong with the Concept of Multinational Federalism? Some Thoughts about the Interrelationship between the Concepts of (Multi-)Nationalism, Federalism, Power Sharing and Conflict Resolution

Diplomacija u granicama prava

Power-Sharing and Party Politics in the Western Balkans

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