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    It is not the case that Institutionalizing the ascriptivist principle that every nation is entitled to its own state would exacerbate ethno-national violence and associated human rights violations.

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    • 1.The historical record shows significant ethno-nationalist conflict.
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    • 2.Ethno-national violence inevitably entails human rights violations.
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    • 1.Formal legal entrenchment of a right transforms moral claims into justiciable entitlements, creating institutional incentives that reshape political behavior.
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    • 2.When secession becomes a codified right tied to ethnic identity, minority groups within prospective states face heightened vulnerability as populations are reclassified as obstacles to national self-determination.
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    • 3.Allen Buchanan's work demonstrates that ascriptivist frameworks generate recursive minority problems: every new state contains minorities who can invoke the same principle, producing cascading fragmentation and violence.
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    • 1.The SFRY's constitutional recognition of national self-determination rights in 1974 provides a historical case where institutionalized ascriptivism directly preceded the most severe European ethnic violence since 1945.
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    • 2.Institutionalizing group-based rights creates what David Laitin calls 'ethnic outbidding' dynamics, where political entrepreneurs are structurally rewarded for escalating exclusivist nationalist demands over moderate civic alternatives.
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