Settling self-determination disputes : : complex power-sharing in theory and practice / / edited by Marc Weller and Barbara Metzger ; assistant editor, Niall Johnson.

• Author: University of Cambridge. Centre of International Constitutional Studies.
• TeilnehmendeR: Weller, M.; Metzger, Barbara, 1965-; Johnson, Niall, 1967-; University of Cambridge. Centre of International Constitutional Studies.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Publications on Ocean Development, 60
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (812 p.)
• Notes: "Published under the Auspices of the Centre for International Constitutional Studies at the University of Cambridge."

The study is the result of an international collaborative project supported and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This multi-year venture has involved a research team of some forty chapter authors and commentators. The research has been accompanied by three major workshops on project methodology, initial chapter reviews and final discussions. A point was made of including both scholars and practitioners involved in power-sharing settlements in the review process, in the hope that more would be learned about the actual implementation of the settlements under investigation. The project team was united in its wish to explore whether long-standing secessionist conflicts have been addressed effectively through the significant number of self-determination settlements that were generated in response to the wave of internal conflicts of the 1990s. It was also committed to testing whether consociationalist and integrative techniques of conflict settlement really are as mutually exclusive as is sometimes supposed, or whether they can in fact be mutually reinforcing. Finally, the project derives its impetus from the necessity to critically rethink the doctrine of self-determination. One may question whether its traditional, restrictive interpretation will be adequate in confronting the wide variety of future challenges to the territorial integrity of states.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Marc Weller and Barbara Metzger -- Chapter 1. Nationalism, Self-determination, and the Doctrine of Territorial Unity / James Mayall -- Chapter 2. Why the Legal Rules on Self-determination Do Not Resolve Self-determination Disputes / Marc Weller -- Chapter 3. The Logics of Power-sharing, Consociation and Pluralist Federations / Brendan O’Leary -- Chapter 4. Complex Power-sharing in and over Northern Ireland: a Self-determination Agreement, a Treaty, a Consociation, a Federacy, Matching Confederal Institutions, Intergovernmentalism, and a Peace Process / Brendan O’Leary -- Chapter 5. Resolving the Bougainville Self-determination Dispute: Autonomy or Complex Power-sharing? / Anthony J. Regan -- Chapter 6. Resolving Self-determination Disputes through Complex Power-sharing Arrangements: the Case of Mindanao, Southern Philippines / Mark Turner -- Chapter 7. Power-sharing and International Intervention: Overcoming the Post-conflict Legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Florian Bieber -- Chapter 8. Interim-governance for Kosovo: the Rambouillet Agreement and the Constitutional Framework Developed under UN Administration / Marc Weller -- Chapter 9. Power-sharing in Macedonia? / Farimah Daftary and Eben Friedman -- Chapter 10. Gagauzia and Moldova: Experiences in Power-sharing / Priit Jerve -- Chapter 11. Case Study of the Conflict in South Ossetia / Ketevan Tsikhelashvili and Natasha Ubilava -- Chapter 12. Addressing the Self-determination Dispute / Marc Weller -- Chapter 13. Power-sharing and the Vertical Layering of Authority: a Review of Current Practices / Stefan Wolff -- Chapter 14. Electoral Arrangements in Systems of Complex Power-sharing / Andrew Reynolds -- Chapter 15. Third-party Involvement in Self-determination Conflicts / Ulrich Schneckener -- Chapter 16. Education / Mark Turner -- Chapter 17. Resolving Self-determination Disputes Using Complex Power-sharing: the Role of Economic Policies / John Bradley -- Chapter 18. Policing Territories Previously Subject to Civil War and Ethnic Violence / Philip Towle -- Chapter 19. The Military Dimension of Security Sector Governance in Complex Power-sharing Arrangements / Paul Cornish -- Chapter 20. Transforming Justice, Reclaiming the Rule of Law: Legal Transition in Complex Power-sharing Agreements / Angela Hegarty -- Chapter 21. The Role of Human and Minority Rights in Complex Power-sharing / Jennifer Jackson-Preece -- Chapter 22. ‘Bridges’ in Self-determination Disputes? External Relations of Sub-national Entitiesand Minority Groups / Francesco Palermo -- Chapter 23. Conclusion Power-sharing Theory: Lessons from the Complex Power-sharing Project / John Mcgarry -- Biographies / Marc Weller and Barbara Metzger -- Bibliography / Marc Weller and Barbara Metzger -- Index / Marc Weller and Barbara Metzger.