Designing Peace : : Cyprus and Institutional Innovations in Divided Societies / / Neophytos Loizides.

Why do some societies choose to adopt federal settlements in the face of acute ethnic conflict, while others do not? Neophytos Loizides examines how acrimoniously divided Cyprus could re-unify by adopting a federal and consociational arrangement inspiring similar attempts in its region.Loizides asse...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 4 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Institutional Innovations in Peace Processes
  • 1. A Federal Cyprus? Consociational Failures and Prospects
  • 2. The Region's Federal Movements: Why Did (post-)Ottoman States Fail in Sharing Power?
  • 3. Innovations in Power-Sharing: The Northern Irish d'Hondt
  • 4. The Way Home: Linkages, Reciprocity, and Lessons from Bosnia
  • 5. Mandate Peace Referendums: A South African Innovation?
  • 6. "Stalemate Theory": A Humanitarian Breakthrough in Cyprus
  • 7. Europeanization and Hydrocarbons: Alternative Scenario Planning in the Levant
  • Conclusion: Can Divided Societies Learn from Each Other?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments