Ethnopolitics and the Security of Contemporary Eastern
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Etnopolityka a bezpieczeństwo współczesnych państw Europy Wschodniej
Ethnopolitics and the Security of Contemporary Eastern European Countries

Author(s): Magdalena Karolak-Michalska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Economy, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Supranational / Global Economy, Civil Society, Governance
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: ethnopolitics; security threat; post-Soviet area; Eastern Europe; ethnopolitical processes

Summary/Abstract: The article contains considerations about the security in the ethnopolitical dimension in Eastern European countries. The author identifies threats and indicates their common elements. The further part of the article draws attention to the catalog of universal activities in the area of ethnopolitics, the implementation of which could become a preventive factor to the discussed threats. The subject of considerations is also the role of ethnopolitics in ensuring state security. The author concludes that for the elimination of security threats in the ethnopolitical dimension, on the one hand, ethnic communities should be subordinate to the state in which they live, while, on the other hand, they may influence the state to a certain extent (eg as part of socio-political activity) .

  • Issue Year: 19/2018
  • Issue No: 11.1
  • Page Range: 213-223
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish