Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies

Part 1 Comparative approaches: spatial and functional dimensions of autonomy - cross-national and theoretical perspectives, William Safran; democracy, federalism, and nationalism in multinational states, Ramon Maiz; local and global - mesogovernments and territorial identities, Luis Moreno. Part 2 Spanish experiences: identity, ethnicity, and the state in Spain - 19th and 20th centuries, Justo G. Beramendi; Basque polarisation - between autonomy and independence, Francisco J. Llera; autonomist regionalism within the Spanish state, Xose Manoel Nunez; national identity an self-government - the Galician case, Anton Losada. Part 3 Variations on the theme of identity, autonomy, and nationalism: autonomy of the sacred - the end game in Kosovo, Steven Majstorovic; internal unit demarcation and national identity - India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Swarna Rajagopalan; the political demands of isolated Indian bands in British Columbia, Dennis L. Thomson; why territorial autonomy is not a viable option for managing ethnic conflict in African plural societies, Shaheen Mozaffar, James R. Scarritt; security in deeply divided societies - the role of territorial autonomy, Donald Rothchild, Caroline Hartzell.

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Ramón Máiz, Safran William

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- Commonwealth and Comparitive Politics

'Majstorovic's analysis of the conflict between Serbs and Albanians over the region of Kosovo is an interesting and, in general, quite balanced chapter.' - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies