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Russian federalism and Tatarstan's ethnic peace
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Abstract This article focuses on cooperation between Muslims and Christians in Tatarstan and illustrates how federal arrangements operate to diffuse ethnopolitical crises. Management of ethnic and national conflicts has importance within Russia and its immediate neighbourhood as well as globally. Using news ... mehr
This article focuses on cooperation between Muslims and Christians in Tatarstan and illustrates how federal arrangements operate to diffuse ethnopolitical crises. Management of ethnic and national conflicts has importance within Russia and its immediate neighbourhood as well as globally. Using news reports, secondary sources, and interviews from fieldwork in Russia, the article identifies ways in which the two communities are working together to ensure stability and peace in the region. It examines the religious aspects of cooperation, as well as economic and political dimensions of cooperation. The article identifies lessons for the rest of Russia, particularly Chechnya as well as the central Asian states formerly part of the Soviet Union. Even though federalism has got negative publicity in former communist countries, particularly following the collapse of communism, the case of Tatarstan suggests ways through which federal institutions enable cooperation between Russians and Tatars. In addition, the article considers recent pitfalls the two sides have had to overcome and broader implications for federalism and reconciliation studies in general.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Russland; Republik; Autonomie; Konfliktregelung; Friedenssicherung; ethnischer Konflikt; ethnische Beziehungen; Föderalismus; Souveränität; nationale Identität; Muslim; Christ; Minderheit; ethnische Gruppe
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2011
Seitenangabe
S. 42-53
Zeitschriftentitel
Federal Governance, 8 (2011) 2
Heftthema
Federalism, reconciliation, and power-sharing in post-conflict societies
ISSN
1923-6158
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)