Entitlements of Substate Groups

Such a strategy for approaching nationhood in transitional societies consists of the following four basic steps. 

It ought to be accepted that if there is a group with an acmalized political culture of self-determination, and if the people of the group identify with this political culture, this group is a nation. If such a group makes a claim to self-determination, the international community needs to address the claim.  

This strategy would need to explain how to approach the claims that minorities advance. It could require that no claims advanced by substate groups should be ignored and prescribe what claims (and what ways of advancing them) are 

From the point of view of international agencies, although nationhood in oppressive societies should be approached with caution, the notion of potential political culture keeps options open for the application of rules regulating relations among national groups in the future. Identifying a potential political culture is by no means 

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