Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia / / ed. by Michelle Ann Miller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• HerausgeberIn: Ann Miller, Michelle,
• MitwirkendeR: Dean, Karin,; D’Souza, Shanthie Mariet,; Kammen, Douglas,; Kingsbury, Damien,; May, Ronald J.,; McCargo, Duncan,; Miller, Michelle Ann,; Parks, Thomas,; Rood, Steven,; Routray, Bibhu Prasad,; Sahadevan, P.,; Singh, Bilveer,; Soares, Adérito de Jesus,; Uyangoda, Jayadeva,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

Armed separatist insurgencies have created a real dilemma for many national governments of how much freedom to grant aggrieved minorities without releasing territorial sovereignty over the nation-state. This book examines different approaches that have been taken by seven states in South and Southeast Asia to try and resolve this dilemma through various offers of autonomy. Providing new insights into the conditions under which autonomy arrangements exacerbate or alleviate the problem of armed separatism, this comprehensive book includes in-depth analysis of the circumstances that lead men and women to take up arms in an effort to remove themselves from the state’s borders by creating their own independent polity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Contributors -- 1. The Problem of Armed Separatism: Is Autonomy the Answer? -- 2. Mediated Constitutionality as a Solution to Separatism -- 3. Self-Governance as a Framework for Conflict Resolution in Aceh -- 4. Autonomy and Armed Separatism in Papua: Why the Cendrawasih Continues to Fear the Garuda -- 5. The Parallels and the Paradox of Timor-Leste and Western Sahara -- 6. Between Violence and Negotiation: Rethinking the Indonesian Occupation and the East Timorese Resistance -- 7. Struggle over Space in Myanmar: Expanding State Territoriality after the Kachin Ceasefire -- 8. Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict: The Autonomy-Separation Dialectic -- 9. Unitarianism, Separatism and Federalism: Competing Goals and Problems of Compromise in Sri Lanka -- 10. Autonomy and Armed Separatism in Jammu and Kashmir -- 11. Armed Conflicts and Movements for Autonomy in India’s Northeast -- 12. Southern Thailand: The Trouble with Autonomy -- 13. The Last Holdout of an Integrated State: A Century of Resistance to State Penetration in Southern Thailand -- 14. Interlocking Autonomy: Manila and Muslim Mindanao -- 15. History, Demography and Factionalism: Obstacles to Conflict Resolution through Autonomy in the Southern Philippines -- 16. Conclusion -- Index