Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance

Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance

by JacquesBertrand (Editor), Andre Laliberte (Editor)

Synopsis

As countries in Asia try to create unified polities, many face challenges from minority groups within their own borders seeking independence. This volume brings together international experts on countries in all regions of Asia to debate how differently they have responded to this problem. Why have some Asian countries, for example, clamped down on their national minorities in favour of homogeneity, whereas others have been willing to accommodate statehood or at least some form of political autonomy? Together they suggest broad patterns and explanatory factors that are rooted in the domestic arena, including state structure and regime type, as well as historical trajectories. In particular, they find that the paths to independence, as well as the cultural elements that have been selected to define post-colonial identities, have decisively influenced state strategies.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 22 Mar 2010

ISBN 10: 0521143632
ISBN 13: 9780521143639
Book Overview: As countries in Asia try to create unified polities, many face challenges from minority groups within their own borders seeking independence. This volume brings together international experts on countries in all regions of Asia to debate how differently they have responded to this problem.

Media Reviews
'This book offers an unrivalled collection of essays on the (mis)management of multinationalism across Asia, in terms of separatist challenges and various efforts to accommodate them through various forms of autonomy and federalism. The book is certain to become the focal point of reference for scholarly debate on such themes. Each and every essay in the volume rewards reading and rereading, and the volume as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts, in terms of the considerable light it sheds on problems of managing multi-nationalism in Asia.' John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science
Bertrand et al. offer readers a detailed and much-needed account of the dynamics that have gone into shaping state responses to the claims of sub-state national groups in Asia. By using a broad array of cases the authors have greatly added to existing literature that questions just how well democracies and semi-democracies respond to sub-state national claims, especially those that may threaten the integrity of the state. -Lacey Bradley-Storey, Northeastern University, Journal of Chinese Political Science
Author Bio
Jacques Bertrand is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Andre Laliberte is Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan, 1989-2003 (2004) and has edited, with Marc Lanteigne, The Chinese Party-State at the Turn of the Millennium: Legitimacy and Adaptation (2008).