Autonomy And Ethnicity

Author : Yash P. Ghai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521786423
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autonomy and Ethnicity written by Yash P. Ghai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2000, explores how different states negotiate the competing claims of ethnic groups.

Author : Bethany Lacina
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472122568
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rival Claims written by Bethany Lacina and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of struggles for ethnoterritorial autonomy, Bethany Lacina explains regional elites’ decision whether or not to fight for autonomy, and the central government’s response to this decision. In India, the prime minister’s respective electoral ties to separate, rival regional interests determine whether ethnoterritorial demands occur and whether they are repressed or accommodated. Using new data on ethnicity and sub-national discrimination in India, national and state archives, parliamentary records, cross-national analysis and her original fieldwork, Lacina explains ethnoterritorial politics as a three-sided interaction of the center and rival interests in the periphery. Ethnic entrepreneurs use militancy to create national political pressure in favor of their goals when the prime minister lacks clear electoral reasons to court one regional group over another. Second, ethnic groups rarely win autonomy or mobilize for violence in regions home to electorally influential anti-autonomy interests. Third, when a regional ethnic majority is politically important to the prime minister, its leaders can deter autonomy demands within their borders, while actively discriminating against minorities. Rival Claims challenges the conventional beliefs that territorial autonomy demands are a reaction to centralized power and that governments resist autonomy to preserve central prerogatives. The center has allegiances in regional politics, and ethnoterritorial violence reflects the center’s entanglement with rival interests in the periphery.

Author : Gahi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521735476
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Author : Ramón Máiz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135304017
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies written by Ramón Máiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on autonomy in countries whose societies are marked by ethnic diversity, this work examines the effects of territorial solutions to the safeguarding of cultural identities. Contributors distinguish among types of autonomy and their impact on pluralism, democracy and unity of the state.

Author : Raymond L. Hall
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 : 9780080236827
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Autonomy written by Raymond L. Hall and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruth Eschelbacher Lapidoth
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 1878379623
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autonomy written by Ruth Eschelbacher Lapidoth and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Weller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205758
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts written by Marc Weller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Conflicts assesses 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. In Asymmetric 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.

Author : Rajat Ganguly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136311890
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict in South and South-East Asia written by Rajat Ganguly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict resolution in South and South-East Asia. The concept of territorial or regional autonomy holds centre stage in the literature on ethnic conflict settlement because it is supposed to be able to reconcile two paradoxical objectives: the preservation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the state, and the satisfaction of ethnic minorities’ right to national self-determination. Critics argue, however, that autonomy may not be the panacea for ethnic conflict in all cases. The contributing authors begin with the concept of territorial or regional autonomy and subject it to a rigorous empirical analysis, which provides reliable evidence regarding the suitability of the autonomy solution to intractable ethnic conflicts. Drawing upon case studies from Kashmir, Assam, Sri Lanka, Aceh, Mindanao and Southern Thailand, this edited volume argues that autonomy arrangements may at best work to resolve only a handful of separatist ethnic conflicts in South and South-East Asia. This book will be of much interest to students of South and South-East Asia, Asian security, ethnic conflict, peace studies and IR in general.

Author : Oskar Peterlini
Publisher : Oskar Peterlini
ISBN 13 : 8890007729
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autonomy and the Protection of Ethnic Minorities in Trentino-South Tyrol written by Oskar Peterlini and published by Oskar Peterlini. This book was released on 1997 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Felix Girke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339516
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wheel of Autonomy written by Felix Girke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the Kara, a small population residing on the eastern bank of the Omo River in southern Ethiopia, manage to be neither annexed nor exterminated by any of the larger groups that surround them? Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the Ethiopian state. The model of the “Wheel of Autonomy” captures the interplay of distinction, agency and autonomy that drives these dynamics and offers an innovative perspective on social relations.