ABSTRACT
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 in 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 and decentralisation, nationalism as well as practitioners in think tanks, NGOs, and international governmental organisations.
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
