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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.
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.
Negotiating a peaceful end to civil wars, which often includes an
attempt to bring together former rival military or insurgent
factions into a new national army, has been a frequent goal of
conflict resolution practitioners since the Cold War. In practice,
however, very little is known about what works, and what doesn't
work, in bringing together former opponents to build a lasting
peace. Contributors to this volume assess why some civil wars
result in successful military integration while others dissolve
into further strife, factionalism, and even renewed civil war.
Eleven cases are studied in detail-Sudan, Zimbabwe, Lebanon,
Rwanda, the Philippines, South Africa, Mozambique,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
and Burundi-while other chapters compare military integration with
corporate mergers and discuss some of the hidden costs and risks of
merging military forces. New Armies from Old fills a serious gap in
our understanding of civil wars, their possible resolution, and how
to promote lasting peace, and will be of interest to scholars and
students of conflict resolution, international affairs, and peace
and security studies.
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