Table of Contents

1. Autonomy to manage ethnic conflicts Yash Ghai; 2. Federalism and diversity in Canada Ronald Watts; 3. Federalism and diversity in India Vasuki Nesiah; 4. Autonomy regimes in China: coping with ethnic and economic diversity Yash Ghai; 5. How the centre holds: managing claims for regional and ethnic autonomy in a democratic South Africa Heinz Klug; 6. Autonomous communities and the ethnic settlement in Spain Daniele Conversi; 7. Ethnicity and federalism in socialist Yugoslavia and its successor states Sinisa Malesevic; 8. Ethnicity and the new constitutional orders of Ethiopia and Eritrea James Paul; 9. Accommodating self-rule: Sri Lankan dialectics Neelan Tiruchelvam; 10. Cyprus: from consociationalism to federation Reed Coughlan; 11. Bougainville and dialectics of ethnicity, autonomy and separation Yash Ghai and Anthony Regan; 12. Autonomy for Aboriginal peoples Cheryl Saunders.

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This book, first published in 2000, explores how different states negotiate the competing claims of ethnic groups.