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The study analyses the role of federalism in solving the national & ethnic conflicts. From this point of view it describes the main types of modem federal state: mononational (e.g. USA, FRG), multiethnic (Switzerland, present-day Russia) & multinational forms (former socialist federations, present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina). Hereafter the study outlines the most important views which appeared in the modem political thinking about the role of federalism in solving the national & ethnic conflicts. It refers to the messianistic federalist ideologies, to the French republican tradition, & to the American liberal approach. Furthermore it describes the main characteristics of socialist federations, briefly analyses the causes of their disintegration. Finally the study sums up the most important stabilizing factors of ethno-federations. References. Adapted from the source document.