scholarly journals SWITZERLAND AND INDIA AS DIFFERENT MODELS OF ETHNIC FEDERALISM

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
A. Y. Salomatin ◽  
A. S. Koriakina
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Ethnic Federalism ◽  
Ethnic Factor

The ethnic factor is important in the development of federalism. ethno-linguistic architecture and cultural-religious structure are the main elements. Switzerland and India are diff erent models of ethnic federalism. The Swiss model of federalism is cantonal-communal. Switzerland consists of 26 cantons; there is a multi-ethnic composition of the population. Switzerland escaped ethnic separatism. The state has centuries of experience in reconciling linguistic and cultural diff erences. The Indian model is postcolonial. The state is multi-ethnic. Indian federalism is highly centralized. India has a unique ethnic, linguistic and religious composition.

Afars of Ethiopia in the system of ethnic federalism

2018 ◽  
pp. 126-146
Author(s):  
Roza Ismagilova
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
State Structure ◽  
Ethnic Federalism

The article pioneers the analyses of the results of ethnic federalism introduced in Ethiopia in 1991 – and its influence on Afar. Ethnicity was proclaimed the fundamental principle of the state structure. The idea of ethnicity has become the basis of official ideology. The ethnic groups and ethnic identity have acquired fundamentally importance on the political and social levels . The country has been divided into nine ethnically-based regions. The article exposes the complex ethno-political and economic situation in the Afar State, roots and causes of inter- and intra-ethnic relations and conflicts with Amhara, Oromo, Tigray and Somali-Issa, competition of ethnic elites for power and recourses. Alive is the idea of “The Greater Afar”which would unite all Afar of the Horn of Africa. The protests in Oromia and Amhara Regions in 2015–2017 influenced the Afar state as welll. The situation in Ethiopia nowadays is extremely tense. Ethiopia is plunging into serious political crisis. Some observers call it “the beginning of Ethiopian spring”, the others – “Color revolution”

An Emergent Betrayal

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Willford ◽  
S. Nagarajan
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Demographic Shift ◽  
Development Politics ◽  
Core Identity

This chapter analyzes the transformation of the plantation industry in Malaysia's commercial heartland, primarily in the state of Selangor, to understand how the bureaucratization of ethnic entitlement affected the politics of development—which in turn had economic and symbolic consequences for Tamil communities experiencing displacement. Development politics have brought about a dramatic demographic shift in the ethnic composition of Malaysia's industrial heartland. This was the intended goal all along. To develop the nation's core identity, politically constructed around Malay ethnicity and Islam, the two being increasingly synonymous, it was argued that Malays had to be united and strong—particularly at the center. In addition to reforming and thereby policing Malay identity, incentives and privileges created a culture of privilege and increasing self-rationalization of these purported entitlements.

Colonizing the Hungarian and German Border Areas during the Czechoslovak Land Reform. 1918-1938

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 303-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
First Republic ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
The Creation

With the creation of the Czechoslovak First Republic in October 1918, politicians began debating the fate of the great estates the new country had inherited from the Habsburg monarchy, and within six months, the National Assembly enacted a sweeping land reform. With some of the land, the state sponsored colonies—new or expanded agricultural settlements. The announced purpose of the colonization program was to relieve land hunger, which was a genuine concern. Equally important in the minds of many who administered the program and participated in it, however, was altering the ethnic composition of the border areas, where most of the colonies were located.

La minorité en Etat bicommunautaire: quatre études de cas

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-496
Author(s):  
Jacques Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Veto Power ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Cultural Constraints

The fate of the minority in a bi-communal state cannot easily be studied using contemporary theories of integration. This article employs a certain number of variables, regrouped under the concepts of institutional constraints and cultural constraints, which allow for measurement of the strength of the minority. Four countries are studied, all in process of development: Cameroon and Mauritius in Africa, and Cyprus and Lebanon in the Middle East. From the point of view of institutional constraints, the following variables are considered relevant: the statutory “ethnic” composition of the legislative assembly, the type of executive (presidential or responsible cabinet), and the type of protective veto power which rests with the minority. Finally, the state of inter-community relations prior to independence, the presence or absence of a major Power protecting the minority community, and the philosophy of the régime as understood by the country's leaders serve as indicators of cultural constraint.

Kyrgyzstan

2017 ◽  
pp. 404-426
Author(s):  
Mehmet Yüce
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The West ◽  
The Us ◽  
Education Culture

Kyrgyzstan is very rich and striking with its ethnic composition. After the collapse of USSR, the changes in social infrastructure and the differentiation in the ideological premises of the state have led to a dramatic change in the population dynamics of the country. Now, the Kyrgyzstan Republic is a democratic and secular state. Ethnic structure, border security, long border with China are important issues of Kyrgyzstan, which, in its foreign policy, has drawn a profile that is open to the west, avoids conflicts with its neighbors, pursues a balanced policy in its relations with the US, Russia and China. Turkey is also an important partner of Kyrgyzstan; between Turkey and the Kyrgyz Republic, over 100 agreements and cooperation documents were signed in the fields of education, culture, trade and economic cooperation, transport, communication, military and other areas.

Ethnic factor on the frontier territory

2019 ◽  
pp. 220-224
Author(s):  
Polina Napolnikova
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Border Area ◽  
Interaction Problem ◽  
Ethnic Factor

We consider Tsna region territory in the late of 14th – early 17th century from the point of view frontier theory. We made a conclusion that about Tsna region of the first quarter of the 17th century, one can speak about the inner frontier, that is, as existing on the contact zone, where permanent Russian settlements interspersed in places of residence of the local autochthony population. Based on the sources analysis we identify ethnic composition of the population of Tsna region. In this study we raise the interaction problem of different ethnic groups in the border area. The study deals with the gradual formation of a local intercultural society within the inner frontier of Tsna region at the turn of the 14th – 17th centuries.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF A CULTURE OF INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS IN THE CONDITIONS OF MODERNIZATION OF PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE MODERN TURKESTAN REGION)

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
А.Т. Kashkinbayeva ◽  
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S.S. Korganova ◽  
B.А. Gabdulina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Republic

This article is devoted to the analysis of the factors contributing to the formation of the culture of interethnic relations in the conditions of modernization of public consciousness. To reveal the topic, the statistical data of Turkestan region on ethnic composition were used, the role and importance of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan and ethno-cultural associations in strengthening interethnic harmony in the region were considered. At the end of the conclusions and suggestions. This article is devoted to the study of the role of ethno-cultural associations of Shymkent and Turkestan region in strengthening interethnic harmony. Ethno-cultural contacts and interethnic communications are shown, which are designed to explain the mechanism of development and functioning of modern ethnic processes, forms of translation and preservation of their ethno-cultural experience. The conclusion that the history and national traditions must be taken into account in the Ethnopolitics of the state is substantiated. Ethno-cultural associations and houses of Friendship should conduct coordinated work in the field of culture, language, traditions, implementing the national policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Ethnicity as a Hindrance for Understanding Ethiopian History: An Argument Against an Ethnic Late Nineteenth Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 101-131
Author(s):  
Brian J. Yates
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Federalism ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract:Despite its present ethnic federalism, Ethiopian history has been marked by provincial or cultural identities, which twentieth century notions of identity have obscured. This essay gives three major reasons why ethnicity is not an effective lens to understand Ethiopia’s complex history. One, there is no agreement among either popular and academic writers on what ethnic identities in Ethiopia represents, either currently or historically. Two, a focus on ethnicity obscures the rationale behind the actions of the state and key actors during the nineteenth century. Three, an ethnic lens brings much needed scholarly attention away from key moments in the nineteenth century.

A chief by the people: nation versus state in Lesotho

Africa ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Coplan ◽  
Tim Quinlan
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Life Process ◽  
The People ◽  
Cultural Plurality ◽  
General Relations ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Conflictual Relationship ◽  
Ethnic Factor

The article explores the conflictual relationship among the Basotho chieftaincy, state, and nation in historical perspective. That history includes consideration of the recent and still unresolved political crisis in Lesotho. The current meaning of Sesotho, the ‘whole life process’ of the Basotho people, is examined in the context of the divergence between state and nation, between chiefs and people, between region and locality, and between modern and customary institutions and forms of organisation. Lesotho is unusual in Africa as a state attempting to emerge from an existing, monocultural nation rather than to build a not yet existing nation out of cultural plurality. It is this very peculiarity, and the state of seemingly endless political turmoil despite the absence of any ‘ethnic factor’ which provides the most telling commentary on more general relations between cultural and historical forms of political organisation in Africa.

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