Non-constitutional requirements forsuccessful implementation of federalism
November 6, 2017, 8:49 pm
By Prof. Shantha K. Hennayake
Department of Geography
University of Peradeniya
Department of Geography
University of Peradeniya
This indeed is the paradox of multinational federalism: while it provides national minorities with a workable alternative of secession, it also helps to make secession a more realistic alternative to federalism".
Second, federalism has not led to the disappearance of ethnonationalism in any state; ethnonationalism is only contained and may be passing a dormant state only to erupt at a later date as in the case of Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union. Third, without a qualitative change in political culture federalism cannot resolve ethnonationalist problems. Thus, an imposed federalism without the necessary political culture is bound to fail.
