Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is a Fellow at the Center for Peace, Democracy and Development, University of Massachusetts Boston. His book Conflict and Peace in Eurasia was published by Routledge in 2013.
Pluralist states are a legitimate form of state organisation. Yet, do we properly understand the viability of this form of state structure in the twenty first century? This article unravels the values inherent in multiethnic and pluralistic states and the source of their legitimacy.