Sentences with phrase «multinational federalism»

As far as it is concerned, territorial federalism can certainly ease tensions and calm down temporary crises through concessions from the majority nation to the minority nations (oftentimes temporary), but the logic inherent to the system will sooner or later lead the minority nations (which can not cease to be in a minority under territorial federalism) to ask for full national recognition, either by claiming multinational federalism or by seeking independence.

In fact, two different attitudes from Spanish nationalism should be distinguished in order to understand why a federal reform of the system in Spain appears to be hardly viable (territorial nationalism) or not viable at all (multinational federalism).

The option of multinational federalism finds, in my opinion, two impassable obstacles on its way.

To sum up, and reversing Schmitt's statement, in the pattern of multinational federalism, democracy should be adjusted to federalism rather than federalism to democracy (Burgess and Gagnon: 2010).

It seems impossible for the project of multinational federalism to prosper under those conditions.

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His main fields of research are theories of democracy, federalism, multinational democracies, political theory and political liberalism after World War II.