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Title Territory and power in constitutional transitions / edited by George Anderson and Sujit Choudhry
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Contents Cover; Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions; Copyright; Contents; Table of Legal Cases; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Territorial Cleavages and the Bolivian Constitutional Transition; 2. When the Total is Less than the Sum of the Parts: The Lessons of Bosnia and Herzegovina; 3. The 2002-​2004 Annan Plan in Cyprus: An Attempted UN-​Mediated Constitutional Transition; 4. Emergence and Transformation of Territorially Based Cleavages and Constitutional Responses in Ethiopia; 5. States Reorganization and Accommodation of Ethno-​Territorial Cleavages in India
6. Dealing with Territorial Cleavages in Constitutional Transitions in Iraq7. Indonesia: "Special Autonomy" for Aceh and Papua; 8. Constitutional Transitions and Territorial Cleavages: The Kenyan Case; 9. "Godot Has Arrived!": Federal Restructuring in Nepal; 10. Nigeria's Permanent Constitutional Transition: Military Rule, Civilian Instability, and the Unending Search for Democratic "True Federalism" in a Deeply Divided Society; 11. The Philippines: Peace Talks and Autonomy in Mindanao
12. The Withering Away of Politically Salient Territorial Cleavages in South Africa and the Emergence of Watermark Ethnic Federalism13. Spain: Constitutional Transition through the Gradual Accommodation of Territories; 14. Sri Lanka's Failed Peace Process and the Continuing Challenge of Ethno-​Territorial Cleavages; 15. After the Scottish Independence Referendum: Toward a Federal Moment for the United Kingdom?; 16. Dealing with Territorial Cleavages: The Rise and Fall of Ukraine's Faustian Bargain; 17. Yemen's Failed Constitutional Transition
18. Processes of Constitutional Transitions in the Face of Territorial Cleavages19. Constitutional Design and Territorial Cleavages; 20. Territorial Cleavages and Constitutional Transitions: Political Mobilization, Constitution-​Making Processes, and Constitutional Design; Index
Summary This collection examines the challenges faced by countries competing over territorial claims during constitutional transitions. It addresses two scenarios in particular: authoritarian to democratic rule against a backdrop of violent conflict; and transitions within electoral democracies in response to claims for territorial autonomy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 5, 2019)
Subject Constitutional law.
Constitutional law -- Cases.
Constitutions -- Design
Conflict management.
Comparative law.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Comparative law
Conflict management
Constitutional law
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, George, 1945- editor
Choudhry, Sujit, editor.
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