The Effectiveness of Federal Responses to Ethnic Conflict

  • John Coakley
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Abstract

There was a time when the ideal of the multinational state seemed to many to be a valuable end in itself. As Lord Acton put it in a celebrated essay, ‘the coexistence of several nations under the same state is… one of the chief instruments of civilisation’. It represented, he argued, ‘a state of greater advancement than the national unity which is the ideal of modern liberalism.’1

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Federal State Comparative International Development Unitary State Autonomous Community Federal System 
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