About Karlo Basta Karlo Basta is lecturer of politics and co-director of the Centre on Constitutional Change at the University of Edinburgh. Books by Karlo Basta The Symbolic State Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countries by (author) Karlo Basta Territorial Pluralism Managing Difference in Multinational States edited by Karlo Basta, John McGarry & Richard Simeon