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191815
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From the early 1990s, Ukrainian Crimea seemed to face the Russian majority’s separatist inclinations and far-reaching political claims of the formerly deported Crimean Tatars. Nevertheless, the peninsula’s autonomous status secured ethnopolitical stability for about 19 years, and the article considers how the established regime of diversity governance contributed to the autonomy’s endurance. The author concludes that this regime did not fit into an explanatory framework of inter-group balance, such as power-sharing. Among the factors securing durablity were the ambiguity of official narratives, loosely formalized participatory mechanisms encouraging opportunisic behavior and the maintenace of the elites’ and population segments’ expectations.
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191813
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This article explores migrant integration policy frames in Japan based on a multi-scalar research design. The development of migrant integration frames mirrors a process where the local scale has contributed to the development of a national policy based on the concept of “multicultural coexistence.” Under the impulsion of immigration reforms, the central government has consolidated the national framework and strengthened its involvement in the governance of migrant integration turning to a more economic framing of migrants. While the cases of Aichi prefecture and Nagoya and Toyohashi cities (located in Aichi prefecture) reflect a gradual convergence of frames with the national level, policies in Kyoto prefecture and Kyoto city do not echo such shifts. Surprisingly, Kyotango city located in Kyoto prefecture has drawn on national level policies turning to a more economic framing of migrants. A focus on “relationality” and stakeholders in policy formulation and relationships between different scales of governance suggests that the assemblage of local political actors bringing their priorities to the discussion table are important shaping forces of local policy frame development. At the same time, exchanges in horizontal and vertical networks exhibit the vitality of the circulation of ideas, even in the absence of formal coordination mechanisms.
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191817
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Since the lull of nationalist struggles and after many merged ethnic-nationalities attained statehood, separatist movements with distinctive identities have increased their agitations for self-determination. The deficit or decline of national cohesion in Nigeria and other independent states has been ascribed to the proliferation and radicalization of separatist movements. Therefore, to provide effective political measures, it has become necessary to quell separatist movement agitations and foster substantial national cohesion. This article examines the actions of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) separatist movement in South East Nigeria and altruistic political solutions to its quest for self-determination. It explores the IPOB’s grievances, strategies, and approaches and the factors sustaining its struggles and uses both primary and secondary sources of data. The study shows that after years of the Nigerian–Biafran war, the Igbo of the South East are still gripped by political alienation, which has led to a renewed call for Biafran statehood. It thus recommends that, rather than using a securitization and militaristic approach to diminish the group’s claims for self-determination, the Nigerian government should initiate a dialogue and ensure ideal inclusive governance to achieve equitable representation of the South East at the national level.
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191816
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Because Georgia was a part of Russia’s Tsarist Empire in 1893–1917, this political phase of the modern Georgian nation’s development was accompanied not only by socioeconomic but also by independence issues. It is worth noting that, to achieve independence, a portion of Georgia’s political elite chose European-oriented policies. They used well-known concepts of the nation created by European authors as a theoretical foundation. In response to current debates about Georgia’s European identity, this study demonstrates the contribution of European nation theories to the formation of the modern Georgian nation, as well as the historical link with European values. The purpose of this article is to assess the impact of foreign national theories, specifically European national theories, on Georgian political debates between 1893 and 1917. The study’s research methodology included secondary research and qualitative data analysis. Within the context of nationalism studies, the article adheres to the modernist approach.
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191814
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This article explores potential power-sharing models for post-conflict Syria. It surveys the literature on the need for power-sharing as a conflict management tool for deeply divided societies and explores its suitability for Syria. Two particular power-sharing models are explored: the consociational and centripetal. Both arrangements are examined through a comparative research that assesses the success and failures of the Lebanese and Iraqi power-sharing experiences. The findings suggest that reform toward post-conflict reconstruction requires a multi-step political agreement that may be initiated in an agreement toward a transitional consociational power-sharing arrangement followed by the gradual attainment of centripetal-based power structure.
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191812
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 24, 2022, has marked a turning point in Russian-Western relations. While liberal democratic societies’ unanimous condemnation of that invasion was followed by unprecedented sanctions and a rupture of diplomatic and economic relations with Russia, some Western social and political actors supported, to some extent, the Russian rhetoric regarding the invasion of Ukraine. Consequentially, this paper not only reveals that Russian state discourses aimed to justify the invasion, it also identifies the selective dissemination of Russian state discourses by the AfD in Germany. Moreover, it compares the antagonistic discursive dynamics in the authoritarian pseudo-civil sphere and the similar discourses of the radical right in the democratic civil sphere, and examine their reception in Russia and Germany. Drawing on Multilayered Narrative Analysis, which relies on a combination of cultural sociological Civil Sphere Theory (CST) and mnemonic figurations developed in the historical sociology of Bernhard Giesen, this paper first describes the Russian state discourses intended to sacralize the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It then examines to what extent the populist radical right disseminated these in Germany, before analyzing and comparing the symbolic influence of such discourses in the Russian pseudo-civil and German civil spheres.
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