Substate groups self-determination

I win provide additional support for the introduction of self-determination as the central notion to consider for the regulation of relations among substate national groups in the next chapter, where 1 define nationhood and explain its relation to self-determination. 

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... 

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