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The papers discusses the views of Slobodan Jovanović (1869-1958) on several phenomena of Serbia's political and institutional development in the hundred years between the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 and the fall of the Obrenović dynasty in 1903, and on different political systems, looking at the sources on which his thought drew upon, the ideas he was guided by and the theoretical framework of his legal and socio-political thinking. His major work, a legal theory of the state, as most of his other writings, was his own contribution to what he held to be a national mission, the building of a modern state based on the rule of law.

This article discusses approaches to governing ethnically divided societies, examining the impact on ethnic groups of specific solutions, such as guarantees of individual or collective rights, ethnic federalism, and consociationalism. It explores the relationship of these approaches to such concepts as "nation-state," confederalism, interna tional guarantees of minority rights, the right of self-determination, seces sion, and cultural autonomy. Some fundamental issues associated with different options for groups living in a diaspora and for territorially concentrated minorities are analyzed, and attention is drawn to particu larly complex cases where groups are mixed, or where one ethnic group which may itself be a "minority" encompasses a smaller group which otherwise belongs to a "majority" within the state. The author draws extensively from the experience of Yugoslavia, but also from other countries.