Socio-Economic Inequality as a Source of Interethnic Tension and Conflict

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The purpose of the article is to analyze the relationship between the existence of socio-economic problems in society and the emergence of interethnic tensions that escalate into conflicts. The research used general scientific methods – analysis, synthesis, generalization and classification, as well as elements of comparative political analysis. The approaches of Russian researchers to explaining the causes of interethnic conflicts, as well as the role that socio-economic contradictions play in them, were studied. It has been revealed that the socio-economic inequality of citizens in some cases causes the accumulation of interethnic tension, but its escalation into conflict situations occurs under the influence of a complex of factors, among which an important role can be played by external factors in relation to the situation.

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Maxim E. Bikeikin

Research Institute of Humanities under the Government of the Republic of Mordovia

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Email: bikeykinm@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0006-8596-7254
SPIN-code: 3982-2453

Postgraduate Student

Russian Federation, Saransk

Igor V. Bakhlov

Research Institute of Humanities under the Government of the Republic of Mordovia; National Research Ogarev Mordovian State University

Email: bahlov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6886-5762
SPIN-code: 9489-5152
Scopus Author ID: 57212021385
ResearcherId: T-4657-2019

Dr. Sci. (Polit.); Head of the Department of General History, Political Science and Regional Studies; Leading Researcher

Russian Federation, Saransk; Saransk

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