This book considers the relationship between territorial autonomy
arrangements and ethnic conflict. As a means of ethnic conflict
management, autonomy arrangements enjoy wide support among
policymakers and academics. Countries ranging from the Sudan, the
Philippines, and Britain have in recent years each experimented
with the establishment of autonomy arrangements as a means of
promoting peaceful interethnic relations. Philip Roeder's study,
Where Nation States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of
Nationalism, criticizes the use of territorial autonomy
arrangements. Roeder contends that provisions for autonomy
typically fail to manage tensions effectively between rival ethnic
communities. Roeder further argues that provisions for autonomy
actually enhance the likelihood that countries will experience
interethnic tensions and dissolve along communal lines. This volume
offers a critical examination of Roeder's claim of a causal
relationship between autonomy arrangements and increasing
interethnic tensions. It presents case studies of territorial
autonomy in the developing states of India, Nicaragua, Cameroon,
and China. The case studies suggest that autonomy arrangements may
in fact have pacifying effects under particular circumstances. The
book concludes with a rejoinder by Roeder in which he offers a
vigorous defense of his theory. This book was originally published
as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.
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