Etnopolitinių problemų sprendimas taikant teritorinę decentralizaciją Belgijoje ir Ispanijoje ; The impact of teritorial decentralization on solving ethnopolitical problems in Belgium and Spain

The article analyses the impact federalization processes may have on the dynamics of ethnic conflict in multiethnic democratic states. Parting from basic theoretical premises as regards the capacity of federalization principles to manage ethnoterritorial conflicts within multiethnic states, the Belgian and Spanish cases are chosen in order to explain the main theoretical contradiction, whether federative restructuring of a state contributes to reducing ethnic tensions, helps to mitigate divisions and fosters accommodation, or, on the contrary, provides ruling regional elites with relevant reso... Mehr ...