Federations and the Nations Approach

In this section, 1 consider how the equal self-determination can be realized within the borders of a federation. The federations I discuss contain national or both national and territorial, but not exclusively territorial, units. Thus, they are either multinational or mixed (asymmetrical) federations. I first consider general organizational principles for such states and then deal with a number of challenges that a theory of multinational federalism needs to answer. 

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It may seem that my approach to nationhood increases the possibility of minorities mobilizing along national lines and aspiring to acquire a status at the level of the federal state equal to that of already existing national groups, which presents a problem for the stability of multinational states. The destabilizing effects of dynamic identities that the nations approach accommodates can be controlled by the terms of nations approach in at least two respects. 

Within the scope of co-operation programmes between different organizations and agencies of Russia and its foreign partners, mutual familiarization and comparison of national approaches to safety of future NPPs has begun (IAEA USNRC BMU and GRS, Germany IPSN, France, etc). The Russian Federation supports the necessity of future efforts to compare and harmonize national approaches to safety of future NPPs. 

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