Böcker i Federalism and Internal Conflicts-serien

This book offers a broad perspective of revolutionary territorial politics by putting secession in the context of other forms of revolutionary territorial politics. This allows for a more complex and profound account of secession and offers the reader a conceptual approach to politics of revolutionary discontent with territorial status quo.

This book provides a critical account of federal asymmetry in India - its origins, context, forms and functioning - by taking into account the institutional effectiveness of asymmetric institutions in the regions for identity fulfillment, development and governance. It argues that while some asymmetry, de jure/ or de facto, is part of all federations for meeting some special circumstances, in India, which has followed a different path of federation building, asymmetric institutional solutions especially in the border areas have played a crucially important role in accommodating ethno-cultural diversity, ensuring law and order, a level of development and governance in a process that has turned the ¿rebels into stakeholders¿. Indiäs federal asymmetric designs and their working has been a key to holding the peripheries within the Union of India. The book utilizes both archival research and empirical survey data, as well as elite interviews.

This book explores the relationship between federalism, social divides and conflict in African countries. It details the origins, design and performance of major federal and quasi-federal states to assess their performance and propose new methods for managing these divides. Drawing on evidence from countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, the book examines the nature and causes of ethnonationalism, mobilisation and confrontation with the nation state. The book is a comprehensive treatment of the five major federal and devolved systems in Africa. It explains their origin, design and operation, and assesses their performance. More importantly, the book explains the distinct nature of federal and devolved systems in the Global South. Federal and devolved systems in Africa cannot be understood in isolation from the nature of state power on the continent. The book explains the impact of unregulated state power on the dynamics of federal and devolved systemsin Africa. Federalism and devolution have not failed but have been betrayed ¿ both in the past and the present ¿ in serving as a venue for accommodation, intergovernmental bargaining and negotiated reform.

This monograph thoroughly illustrates the debate on federalism and regionalism as it emerged in Italy in the years preceding the unification of 1861 and then again in the early 1990s, a debate mainly centred on the deep socio-economic differences between the North and the South of the country. Torn between centripetal and centrifugal forces, the Italian regional model implemented with the 1948 constitution and strengthened in 2001 provokes questions that intersect with topical debates engaging scholars globally, potentially stimulating comparative discussions. While the future of Italian regionalism remains unclear, the Italian regional model combines lessons coming from different theoretical experiences, including federalism, sub-state nationalism, and the European unification process, representing a novel experiment fashioned by those who were looking for a compromise between unitary and federal schemes.

It looks at emerging federal structures worldwide and analyses federal structures: their emergence, operation and categorization.

Bringing together comparative politics, conflict research and social psychology, this book presents a novel theory to explain the consolidation outcomes of post-conflict autonomy arrangements.

1. Introduction: Regional Diversity, Decentralization and Conflict in Ukraine, Maryna Rabinovych and Hanna Shelest Part I. Regional Diversity in Ukraine and its Accommodation in Government Policies2. Regionalism in Ukraine: Historic Evolution, Regional Claim-Making and Center-Periphery Conflict Resolution, Oksana Myshlovska3. Navigating Ethnopolitical Disputes: Ukraine''s Constitutional Court in the Tug-of-War over Language, Andrii Nekoliak and Vello Pettai4. Crimean Tatars and the Question of National and Ethnic Belonging in Ukraine, Alina Zubkovych Part II. The "Crisis In and Around Ukraine", Occupied Territories and their Reintegration: the Legal Dimension5. The Reintegration of Donbas into Ukraine Exercised Through the Means of Post-Violence Reconstruction and Accountability. An International Law Perspective, Tomasz Lachowski6. The Domestic Dimension of Defining Occupied Territories and its Value for Conflict Transformation in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, Maryna Rabinovych Part III. Federalization/Decentralization as a Means of Conflict Resolution. Discursive and Foreign Policy Perspectives7. Three Faces of Federalism in Foreign Policy. Russian and German Approaches to the "Ukraine Crisis", Nadiia Koval8. The Dark Side of the Decentralization Reform in Ukraine: Deterring or Facilitating Russia-Sponsored Federalism, Jaroslava Barbieri Part IV. Decentralization, its Perceptions and the Linkage to Democratization, Modernization and European Integration of Ukraine9. Signs of Progress: Local Democracy Developments in Ukrainian Cities, Aadne Aasland and Oleksii Lyska10. Decentralization and a Risk of Local Elite Capture in Ukraine, Max Bader11. Decentralization Reform: An Effective Vehicle for Modernization and Democratization in Ukraine?, Olga Oleinikova12. Decentralization in Ukraine and "Bottom Up" European Integration, Anne Pintsch 13. Conclusion, Maryna Rabinovych and Hanna Shelest

This edited volume explores the obstacles to and opportunities for the development and entrenchment of a sustainable and representative multinational federalism.

This book explores secession from three normative disciplines: political philosophy, international law and constitutional law. The book's second part then argues that international law is more inclined to accept and advance a remedial right approach to secession.

The book offers new insights into how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity interact within the context of Ukrainian political reform, and indicates how these reforms affect social cohesion among ethno-cultural groups.

This edited volume explores the obstacles to and opportunities for the development and entrenchment of a sustainable and representative multinational federalism.

This edited volume examines the link between constitutional asymmetry and multinationalism in multi-tiered systems through a comprehensive and rigorous comparative analysis, covering countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.

This book provides an in-depth narrative of the difficulties facing Territorial Self-Government institutions across Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, and Iraq.

This book uses the political economy approach to examine the relative failure of federalism in Nigeria. This deficiency is rooted in the country's unbalanced political economy, which promotes over-dependency on oil and consequently an over-centralised federal system.