Autonomy, Self Governance and Conflict Resolution: Innovative approaches to Institutional Design in Divided Societies

by Weller,Marc; Weller,Marc

• ISBN13: 9780415339865
• ISBN10: 0415339863
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book compares and contrasts recent cases from European, Africa, Asia, and Latin American in which new forms of autonomy regimes have been implemented in ethnically diverse societies. Acknowledging the significance of recent developments in the design of complex and innovative autonomy regimes and focusing on different options that are available for their design, this book makes an important contribution to, and moves forward the current debate among scholars and practitioner on institutional design in ethnically diverse societies by: Establishing the role of institutional design in ethnically diverse societies Analyzing in-depth a key approach to state construction ethnically diverse societies-the creation of autonomy regimes-and assessing its applicability from the perspective of viable political institutions Examining recent cases from Europe, Asia and Latin America in which new forms of autonomy regimes have contributed to peace and stability in ethnically diversesocieties Comparing and contrasting, on the basis of in-depth case studies, the features that characterize successful institutional design of autonomy regimes in ethnically diverse societies Assessing the current state of the theory and practice of institutional design in ethnically divers societies Autonomy, Self Governance and Conflict Resolutionwill interest students and researchers of governance, ethnic conflict and nationalism.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
1 Self-determination and autonomy: a conceptual introduction	1	(25)
STEFAN WOLFF AND MARC WELLER
2 Self-governance plus regional integration: a possible solution to self-determination claims	26	(23)
WOLFGANG F. DANSPECKGRUBER
3 Enforced autonomy and self-governance: the post-Yugoslav experience	49	(26)
MARC WELLER
4 The Crimean autonomy: innovation or anomaly?	75	(23)
BILL BOWRING
5 Autonomy and multilevel governance: experiences in Nordic and continental European cooperation	98	(19)
ELISABETH NAUCLÉR
6 Complex autonomy arrangements in Western Europe: a comparative analysis of regional consociationalism in Brussels, Northern Ireland and South Tyrol	117	(41)
STEFAN WOLFF
7 Self-governance in interim settlements: the case of Sudan	158	(22)
MARC WELLER
8 Two steps forward, one step back: indigenous peoples and autonomies in Latin America	180	(33)
WILLEM ASSIES
9 From centralized authoritarianism to decentralized democracy: regional autonomy and the state in Indonesia	213	(21)
MARK TURNER
10 'Masters of their homelands': revisiting the regional ethnic autonomy system in China in light of local institutional developments	234	(28)
ERIK FRIBERG
11 Recent trends in autonomy and state construction	262	(9)
MARC WELLER AND STEFAN WOLFF
Index	271