100 Years of Modern Territorial Autonomy - Autonomy around the World
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100 Years of Modern Territorial Autonomy - Autonomy around the World

Background, Assessments, Experiences

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

100 Years of Modern Territorial Autonomy - Autonomy around the World

Background, Assessments, Experiences

About this book

An unclouded look at territorial autonomy back and forward, 100 years after the establishment of the first "modern" territorial autonomy in a democratic state: the Åland Islands in Finland in 1921/22. Where has autonomy been successful to ensure minority protection and self-government, where has it failed, where is it in crisis, where is it aspired to? In which cases would autonomy settle open conflicts between states and regional communities, and in which cases of national emancipation is autonomy no longer sufficient? In 2021, after 100 years of experience with territorial autonomy in all parts of the world, this concept for solving sub-state conflicts is still underestimated. Background information and assessments on the development to date and on the perspectives for the application of territorial autonomy in various regions worldwide by the author of "The World's Modern Autonomy Systems", conversations with ten outstanding personalities from politics and science in these regions and a foreword by the South Tyrolean politician and scientist Oskar Peterlini, former senator in Rome. Thomas Benedikter is an economist and political scientist, publicist, working for South Tyrol's Center for Political Studies and Civic Education POLITiS.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Content
  3. 1 What actually is territorial autonomy? A clarification
  4. 2 Fake autonomy: when the label is deceptive
  5. 3 From Åland to Bangsamoro: A brief history of territorial autonomy
  6. 4 The first modern territorial autonomy: the Åland Islands
  7. 5 Rescuing a language through autonomy: the Basque Country
  8. 6 Italy‘s rocky road to greater regional autonomy
  9. 7 A much-vaunted but incomplete autonomy: South Tyrol
  10. 8 Conflict resolution through autonomy: Northern Ireland
  11. 9 Corsica on the way to autonomy
  12. 10 Hungarians in Transylvania struggle for autonomy: the Szeklerland
  13. 11 Belgium’s German-speaking Community: “The happiest Belgians”
  14. 12 A state offers autonomy: Morocco and the Western Sahara
  15. 13 Autonomy in name only: Xinjiang/East Turkistan and the autonomous entities of China
  16. 14 Doing justice to ethnic diversity: Autonomy in India
  17. 15 Autonomies in crisis: Nicaragua‘s Caribbean Coast and Indian Kashmir
  18. 16 Between autonomy and independence: the Kurds in Iraq and Syria
  19. 17 The dream of autonomy: Turkish Kurdistan
  20. 18 When autonomy is no longer enough: Scotland and Catalonia
  21. 19 Open domestic conflicts: Territorial autonomy as a viable option
  22. 20 An interim balance sheet and outlook on the future of territorial autonomy
  23. The author