The situation in ethnic states where armed groups operate is volatile.

Parties further to the right put it differently: Germany is an ethnic German state.

Biden was instead a leading advocate for dividing Iraq into a loose federation of three ethnic states.

This way a Pashtunistan will not dare attack the smaller ethnic states.

The breakup of the Ottoman Empire into ethnic based states.

The attack was the latest in a campaign to cut away swaths of the republic's territory and create an ethnic Serbian state.

Transition from a non-democratic ethnic state has taken place.

Some scholars argue that these countries may be in the early stages of becoming ethnic states.

At any rate, the centers of the great Maya ethnic states were gradually abandoned one after the other, never to flourish again.

The rights of the individual are subjugated to the aims of the ethnic state.