Ethnic Minorities in Democratizing Muslim Countries: Turkey and Indonesia [Hardcover]

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities requests of inclusiveness and autonomy. The author examines the results of two important casesthe securitization of Kurds in Turkey and the autonomization (a new concept coined by the study) of Acehnese in Indonesiathrough multiple hypotheses: the elites power interest, the international factors, the institutions and history of the state, and the ontological security of the country. By examining states with ethnic diversity and very little religious diversity, the research controls for the effect of religious conflict on minority inclusion, and so allows expanded generalizations and comparisons. In non-Muslim majority countries, and in so called mature democracies, the problem of the inclusion of old or new ethnic minorities is also crucial for the sustainability of the never-ending democratization processes. 1. IntroductionMaurizio Geri is Research Analyst at ACT-NATO, specializing in international security and delãÉ