Decentralization and Intrastate Struggles - Chechnya, Punjab, and Quebec

Decentralization may help preserve peace in one country or in one region, but may have the opposite effect in others.

List of contents

1. 'Peace-preserving' decentralization?; 2. Divisions, diversity, and disparity in federal states; 3. The First War in Chechnya; 4. The rise and decline of the Punjab crisis; 5. Québec's sovereignty movement; 6. Decentralization and restoring peace after war.

About the author

Kristin M. Bakke is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at University College London. She has previously taught at Leiden University and been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. She holds a PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research, focusing on self-determination struggles and post-war states, has appeared in journals such as International Security, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, Perspectives on Politics, and World Politics. She has received grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the National Science Foundation (US), and the Chr. Michelsen Institute (Norway). She is an associate editor at the Journal of Peace Research and serves on the advisory board of Nations and Nationalism, the management committee of the European Network of Conflict Research, and the council of the British Conflict Research Society.

Summary

Examining self-determination struggles in Chechnya, Punjab and Québec, as well as elsewhere, this book argues that while decentralization may help preserve peace in one country or in one region, it may have just the opposite effect in a country or region with different ethnic and economic characteristics.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin M. Bakke, Kristin M. (University College London) Bakke, Bakke Kristin M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2015
• EAN: 9781107094383
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09438-3
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Comparative Politics, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements