Minority representation raises problems absent from the international system.

Evidence

Can Muslims be represented in Europe? As members of states that form part of what Watson and others call European international society Muslims have, of course, long been represented (and regulated) in it. But representing Muslims in European liberal democracies is a different matter. It raises a question that does not apply to the international system: how can a European state represent its “minorities”? — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 838

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly distinguishes representing-a-minority from regulating-a-member-state justifies chasing into the chapter’s core.
• XREF: Minority-representation-as-problem echoes Cooper on how liberal universalism strains when an internal group is coded religious/traditional.