Aufsatz(gedruckt)#11998
Ethnic conflict and state-building in the Arab world
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Heft 156
ISSN: 0020-8701
Suggests that the nascent system of modern country-states as well as the Arab intelligentsia have both failed to comprehend or deal with the ethnic problem head-on. Argues that the way out of the present dilemmas of all Arab states, but especially those with marked ethnic diversity, is a triangular formula of civil society, democracy, and federalism. (Original abstract - amended)