This volume considers an array of power-sharing systems in divided cities and states, with critical evaluations of their merits and defects as well as explanations of their emergence, maintenance, and failings.
"Unlike the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, or Armenia, scant attention has been paid to the human tragedies analyzed in this book. From German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Burundi, and eastern Congo to Tasmania, Tibet, and Kurdistan, from the mass killings of the Roms by the Na…
Introduction 1. - PART I. ASYMMETRICAL APPROACHES TO STATE DESIGN. - 1 Cases of Asymmetrical Territorial Autonomy 17. - 2 The Russian Constitutional System: Complexity and Asymmetry 48. - 3 Partial Asymmetry and Federal Construction: Accommodating Diversity in the Canadian Const…
