Tatarstan and the Prospects for Federalism in Russia: A Commentary

Security Dialogue

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-86

  Hanauer, Laurence S ^a  

^a Office of the Secretary of Defense   (United States)

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EID: 84993698814     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010696027001010     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Due to calls by Kazan's political leaders to boycott the election, only 14% of Tatarstanis cast votes. Bruce J. Allyn, ‘One Enclave's Solution to Ties with Mother Russia', Christian Science Monitor, 3 September 1993, p. 6.
2. Mintimer Shaimiev (President of the Republic of Tatarstan), ‘Introduction', International Affairs (Moscow), no. 1 (1995), p. 4.
3. Mintimer Shaimiev (President of the Republic of Tatarstan), ‘Introduction', International Affairs (Moscow), no. 1 (1995), p. 4. See also John W.R. Lepingwell, Alexander Rahr, Elizabeth Teague & Vera Tolz, ‘Russia: A Troubled Future,' RFE/RL Research Report, vol. 3, no. 24 (17 June 1994), p. 9.
4. Elizabeth Teague, ‘Russia and Tatarstan Sign Power-Sharing Treaty', RFE/RL Research Report, vol. 3, no. 14 (8 April 1994), p. 22.
5. Cited in Valery Tishkov, ‘What is Rossia? Prospects for Nation-Building', Security Dialogue, vol. 26, no. 1, March 1995, p. 49.
6. Ann Sheehy, ‘Tatarstan Asserts Its Sovereignty', RFE/RL Research Report, vol. 1, no 14 (3 April 1992), p. 1.
7. For more detail on the law of self-determination and the argument that it applies solely to peoples in the process of decolonization, see Laurence S. Hanauer, ‘The Irrelevance of Self-Determination Law to Ethno-National Conflict: A New Look at the Western Sahara', Emory International Law Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 133-177.
8. Raphael Khakimov, ‘Russia and the Process of Federalization', Ethnic Conflict Management in the Former Soviet Union: Bulletin (Cambridge, MA.: Conflict Management Group, June 1995), p. 12.
9. Raphael Khakimov, ‘Russia and the Process of Federalization', Ethnic Conflict Management in the Former Soviet Union: Bulletin (Cambridge, MA.: Conflict Management Group, June 1995), p. 12. Dr. Khakimov takes the quotation from an article by Hurst Hannum, Professor of international law and self-determination at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, in the Financial Times, 25-26 Feb. 1995, p. 9.
10. For an interesting discussion of the morality of ‘political divorce' in different political and historical circumstances, see Allen Buchanan, Secession (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991).
11. Teague, ‘Russia and Tatarstan Sign Power-Sharing Treaty', p. 27.