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Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts
Throughout the world many sovereign states grant one or more of their territories greater autonomy than other areas. This arrangement, known as asymmetric autonomy, has been adopted with greater regularity as a solution to ethnic strife and secessionist struggles in recent decades. As asymmetric autonomy becomes one of the most frequently used conflict resolution methods, examination of the positive and negative consequences of its implementation, as well as its efficacy, is vital.
Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflictsassesses the ability of such power distribution arrangements to resolve violent struggles between central governments and separatist groups. This collection of new case studies from around the world covers a host of important developments, from recentralization in Russia, to \"one country, two systems\" in China, to constitutional innovation in Iraq. As a whole, these essays examine how well asymmetric autonomy agreements can bring protracted and bloody conflicts to an end, satisfy the demands of both sides, guarantee the physical integrity of a state, and ensure peace and stability. Contributors to this book also analyze the many problems and dilemmas that can arise when autonomous regions are formed. For example, powers may be loosely defined or unrealistically assigned to the state within a state. Redrawn boundaries can create new minorities and make other groups vulnerable to human rights violations. Given the number of limited self-determination systems in place, the essays in this volume present varied evaluations of these political structures.
Asymmetric state agreements have the potential to remedy some of humanity's most intractable disputes. InAsymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts, leading political scientists and diplomatic experts shed new light on the practical consequences of these settlements and offer sophisticated frameworks for understanding this path toward lasting peace.
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Practising Self-Government
Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to protect minority rights and prevent secession of the territories in question. The volume's editors draw on the case studies to provide a comparative analysis of how autonomy works and the political and institutional conditions under which it is likely to become a workable arrangement for management of the differences that brought it into being.
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Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination
Demands for \"autonomy\" or minority rights have given rise to conflicts, often violent, in every region of the world and under every political system. Through an analysis of contemporary international legal norms and an examination of several specific case studies-including Hong Kong, India, the transnational problems of the Kurds and Saamis, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Spain, Sri Lanka, and the Sudan-this book identifies a framework in which ethnic, religious, and regional conflicts can be addressed.
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Rebel Power
Many of the world's states-from Algeria to Ireland to the United
States-are the result of robust national movements that achieved
independence. Many other national movements have failed in their
attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds,
and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power , Peter Krause offers
a powerful new theory to explain this variation focusing on the
internal balance of power among nationalist groups, who cooperate
with each other to establish a new state while simultaneously
competing to lead it. The most powerful groups push to achieve
states while they are in position to rule them, whereas weaker
groups unlikely to gain the spoils of office are likely to become
spoilers, employing risky, escalatory violence to forestall victory
while they improve their position in the movement hierarchy.
Hegemonic movements with one dominant group are therefore more
likely to achieve statehood than internally competitive, fragmented
movements due to their greater pursuit of victory and lesser use of
counterproductive violence. Krause conducted years of fieldwork in
government and nationalist group archives in the Middle East, North
Africa, and Europe, as well as more than 150 interviews with
participants in the Palestinian, Zionist, Algerian, and Irish
national movements. This research generated comparative
longitudinal analyses of these four national movements involving 40
groups in 44 campaigns over a combined 140 years of struggle.
Krause identifies new turning points in the history of these
movements and provides fresh explanations for their use of violent
and nonviolent strategies, as well as their numerous successes and
failures. Rebel Power is essential reading for understanding not
only the history of national movements but also the causes and
consequences of contentious collective action today, from the Arab
Spring to the civil wars and insurgencies in Syria, Afghanistan,
Iraq, and beyond.
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