Substate groups nationalism

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... 

In addition to secessionist claims, federations currently face a number of other problems related to substate groups. The advantages and prerogatives that minority nations can acquire within a federal system are affected by the internal composition of their federal state. Many federations are mixed they contain national and territorial subjects. The Russian Federation, for example, includes both territorial-administrative and national units. All eighty-nine subjects of the Russian Federation were considered equal in the federal treaty signed after the fall of the Soviet Union. In reality, however, the status of the national and territorial-administrative units is different. Many of the twenty-one national republics have... 

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