Map lines delineating statehood can become blurred by bloodlines
of nationhood. Interethnic conflict and genocide have demonstrated
the dangers of failing to protect people targeted by fellow
citizens. When minority groups in one country are targeted for
killings or ethnic cleansing based on their group identity, whose
responsibility is it to protect them? In particular, are they owed
any protective responsibility by their kin-state? How can
cross-border kinship ties strengthen greater pan-national identity
without challenging territorially defined national security?
As shown by the Russia?Georgia conflict over South Ossetia,
unilateral intervention by a kin-state can lead to conflict within
and between states. The world cannot stand by when minority rights
are being trampled, but the protection of national minorities
should not be used as an excuse to violate state sovereignty and
generate interstate conflict.
This book suggests that a sensible answer to the kin-state
dilemma might come from the "neither intervention nor indifference"
formula that recognizes the special bonds but proscribes armed
intervention based on the ties of kinship.
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