Preface Contributors 1. Introduction: multinational federations, John Pinder 2. Democratic multinational federalism under scrutiny: healthy tensions and unresolved issues in Canada, Alain-G. Gagnon 3. Multinational federations: reflections on the Belgian state, Patrick Peeters 4. Federalism and competing nations in India, Harihar Bhattacharyya 5. Multinational federation: the case of Malaysia, Ismail Bakar 6. Federalisation in multinational Spain, Luis Moreno 7. Russia’s multinational federation: from constitutional to contract federalism and the ‘war of laws and sovereignties’, Cameron Ross 8. What is to be done? bicommunalism, federation and confederation in Cyprus, Michael Burgess 9. Federalism, nationality, statehood: the problem of the European Union, Murray Forsyth 10. Federation as a method of ethnic conflict regulation, John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary 11. India and Switzerland as multinational federations, Harihar Bhattacharyya 12. Multinational federations in comparative perspective, Ronald L. Watts
Biography
Michael Burgess, John Pinder
