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Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse

Henry E. Hale · World Politics 56(2), 165-193 · 2004

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Type: Article
Author: Henry E. Hale
Identifier: DOI 10.1353/wp.2004.0011
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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TheoryEthnofederal states are more likely to collapse when they contain a core ethnic region, a single region with pronounced superiority in population; a study of world cases found that all ethnofederal states that have collapsed had one, and that dividing a dominant group into several regions reduces the danger.TheoryMany experts regard autonomy regimes as a useful framework for accommodating competing self-determination claims within existing states; comparative case studies range from Åland and Northern Ireland to Crimea, the former Yugoslavia, Latin America, Indonesia and Vietnam.