What makes large, multi-ethnic states hang together? At a time
when ethnic and religious conflict has gained global prominence,
the territorial organization of states is a critical area of
study.
Exploring how multi-ethnic and geographically dispersed states
grapple with questions of territorial administration and change,
this book argues that territorial change is a result of ongoing
negotiations between states and societies where mutual and
overlapping interests can often emerge. It focuses on the changing
dynamics of central-local relations in Indonesia. Since the fall of
Suharto s New Order government, new provinces have been sprouting
up throughout the Indonesian archipelago. After decades of
stability, this sudden change in Indonesia s territorial structure
is puzzling. The author analyses this "provincial proliferation,"
which is driven by multilevel alliances across different
territorial administrative levels, or territorial coalitions. He
demonstrates that national level institutional changes including
decentralization and democratization explain the timing of the
phenomenon. Variations also occur based on historical, cultural,
and political contexts at the regional level. The concept of
territorial coalitions challenges the dichotomy between centre and
periphery that is common in other studies of central-local
relations.
This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of
comparative politics, political geography, history and Asian and
Southeast Asian politics.
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