Substate groups

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... 

Therefore, when it comes to the claims to national self-determination advanced by the official (vacuous) political culture of a mononational nondemocratic state or of a mononational substate group with its own territory and self-government structures in a nondemocratic environment, it is not immediately clear why one ought to... 

These two elements define the modified right to self-determination, which states that all national groups have an equal right to self-determination provided that the realization of self-determination does not require the acquisition of independent statehood. A claim to self-determination advanced by a substate group be first and... 

I will say more about different ways to realize the norm of equality and discuss the probable effects of the introduction of the modified right to self-determination on the behavior of substate groups and their relations with their state-endowed counterparts in the next chapter. 

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