Author(s): Emilian Kavalski and Magdalena Zolkos
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 220
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
1 Approaching the Phenomenon of Federal Failure......Page 16
2 Dwelling Separately: The Federation of the West Indies and the Challenge of Insularity......Page 32
3 The Pyrrhic Victory of Unitary Statehood: A Comparative Analysis of the Failed Federal Experiments in Ethiopia and Indonesia......Page 46
4 Partnership and Paternalism: The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–1963)......Page 62
5 The Games Elites Play: Notes towards an Elite-Focused Understanding of the Failure of the Federal Republic of Cameroon (1961–1972)......Page 74
6 The Failed Experiment with Federalism in Pakistan (1947–1971)......Page 86
7 The Demonization of Federalism in Republican China......Page 102
8 The Strategic Roots of Arab Federalism and Its Failure: Transnational Sovereign Power Issues, Military Rule, and Arab Identity......Page 118
9 The Failure of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1991): A Story of Contradictions, Weaknesses and Tensions......Page 130
10 From the Second Best Option to Dissolution: Instrumentality and Identity in Czechoslovak Federalism......Page 144
11 The Soviet People: The Rise and Fall of an Ideological Federalism......Page 160
12 Conclusions: Whither Defunct Federalisms......Page 172
Bibliography......Page 188
C......Page 216
F......Page 217
L......Page 218
P......Page 219
S......Page 220
Z......Page 221
