Minority protection regimes fundamentally imperfect in ethnically contested regions

Evidence

18 “The regime for the protection of minorities was designed to provide a remedy in cases where a territorial settlement was inevitably imperfect from the point of view of nationality” (Joseph Roucek, The Minority Principle as a Problem of Political Science, Prague, 1928, p. 29). The trouble was that imperfection of territorial settlement was the fault not only in the minority settlements but in the establishment of the succession states themselves, since there was no territory in this region to which several nationalities could not lay claim. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2503

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the imagined-community and nation-state toolkit: the territorial-state ideal cannot contain multi-national populations, a structural tension the Islamophobia readings inherit.