Ethnonational Rebellions and Viable Constitutionalism
Author(s)
Riggs, Fred W.
Abstract
Democracy encourages marginalized ethnic communities to engage in nonviolent politics and thus, by averting ethnonational rebellions, promotes peace and order in an age of global interdependence. External interventions without an adequate understanding of the nature of authoritarianism, that provokes ethnonational violence, are designed to fail. Mono-cultural states of the European variety are an utopian dream in the newly emergent multi-ethnic states. Systemic transformations, leading to viable constitutional democracies with safeguards for the minority rights, are necessary for world peace.
