The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Territorial Autonomies

This handbook affords a comprehensive, pioneering and interdisciplinary survey of the emerging field of Comparative Territorial Autonomies.

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Territorial Autonomies affords a comprehensive, pioneering and interdisciplinary survey of this emerging field.

Moving beyond traditionally narrower engagements with the subject, it combines approaches to comparative law and comparative politics to provide an authoritative guide to the principal theoretical and empirical topics in the area. Bringing together a team of cutting-edge scholars from different disciplines and continents, the volume illuminates the latest thinking and scholarship on comparative territorial autonomies.

This Handbook is an authoritative, essential reference text for students, academics and researchers in its field. It will also be of key interest to those in the fields of comparative politics, comparative law, local/regional government, federalism, decentralisation and nationalism, as well as practitioners in think tanks, NGOs and international governmental organisations.

Autorentext

Brian C. H. Fong is Research Associate, SOAS China Institute, SOAS University of London, UK.

Atsuko Ichijo is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences at Kingston University, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction, 1. What are Territorial Autonomies and Why the Handbook?, Part 1: Theories and approaches, 2. Constitutional Frameworks of Territorial Autonomies: Global Legal Observations, 3. Territorial Autonomies as a Form of Self-Determination: The Legal Right to Internal Self-Determination, 4. Territorial or Non-Territorial Autonomy: The Tools for Governing Diversity, 5. Autonomous Belonging: The Politics of Stateless Nationalism, 6. Societal Minorities and Legislatures in Territorial Autonomies: A Critical Introduction, 7. Electoral and Party Politics in Territorial Autonomies: Dynamics Between State and Peripheral Parties, Part 2: Case studies, 8. Åland Islands: 100 Years of Stability, 9. Aceh: Fading Autonomy, 10. Basques: History and Autonomy, 11. Catalonia: From Autonomy to Self-Determination, 12. Gibraltar: Democracy Without Decolonisation, 13. Greenland: Autonomy in the Arctic Region, 14. Guam: The Place Where America's Day Begins, 15. Hong Kong: Autonomy in Crisis, 16. Jammu and Kashmir: Contested Autonomy, 17. Macao: Undemocratic Autonomy in Harmony, 18. Northern Ireland: A Place Apart?, 19. Quebec: From Autonomism to Sovereignism, and Back Again, 20. Scotland: A Distinct Political Community in the United Kingdom, 21. Sarawak: Quest for Autonomy, 22. Sabah: Autonomy and Integration within the Malaysian Federation, 23. South Tyrol: From Conflict to Consociationalism, 24. Tatarstan: A Landlocked Republic, Conclusion, 25. Rethinking Territorial Autonomies: Towards Transcontinental Comparative Political Studies