Fourteen PrinciplesFor a Multicultural State

Thomas FleinerBelgrade April 6

The major Issue:

To hold or to bring multiculturalsocieties together

How should they be governed?

Who should govern whom?

we have to ask:

And even more explosive:Who should decide, who should govern?

Do federalism and decentralizationhelp to bring or to hold

multicultural societies together?

Why is multiculturalism a problem?

EgocentricHobbes

Bearers ofunalienable

rightsLocke

RationalCitoyensRousseau

Exploitersor

exploitedMarx

Cost-benefit drivenHomo oeconomicus

State of Modernity: allindividuals are equal as being

What is the main problem?

Capable of rea-son and judge-

ment Kant

What

is

good

for

all?

Universa

l values,

but they d

o not take

cultu

re as l

egitimacy

fundam

ent

for politi

cal id

entity s

erious

Nation-State facingMulticulturalism

Nation - State

IgnoringCulture

DenyingCulture

Integrating in-to one cultu-re of identity

Conflict withethnic

minorities

What is

good

for

us and for our

com

mu

nit

ies?To

get legi-timacy from

diversi-ties by

Promoting:shared-ruleself-rule?

Reconciling:conflict ma-nagement

power-sharing?

Tolerating:minority

protection;affirmative

action?

Equalising:collective

rights?

Challenges of the Nation-Statewith regard to fragmen-

tation by diversity

Legitim

acy of m

ulticultu

ral n

ations t

a-

kes c

ulture

s serio

usly b

ut is f

ocuss

ing

on particu

lar rath

er than unive

rsal v

alues

The Fourteen PrinciplesTo hold a multicultural

State together

Legitimacy Rule of Law

Shared Rule

Self-Rule

Democracy

1. Take cultural diversity seriously

2. Fatherland for minorities

3. Composed Nation

4. Multiple loyalty

Legitimacy

Rule of Law

5. The Right to be unequal, or: equal rightsversus the right to be equal

6. Four Dimension of Freedom:From, By, To, Within, the State

7. Liberty and Peace

Shared Rule

8. Participation of ethnic GroupsIn Constitution making

9. Power sharing of cultural communities

Self Rule

10. Autonomy

11. Enhancing diversity to overcome ethnificationof politics

Democracy

12. Self-determination of individualsas aim of democracy

13. Value of compromise as alternative to thewinner takes all democracy

14. Conflict management