Regional Demarcation, Territorial Alteration, and Accommodation of Divided Societies
| Autor | Matteo Nicolini |
| Cargo | Assistant Professor, Comparative Public Law, Department of Law, University of Verona |
| Páginas | 53-84 |
REGIONAL DEMARCATION,
TERRITORIAL ALTERATION, AND
ACCOMMODATION OF DIVIDED
SOCIETIES
MATTEO NICOLINI
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SUMARIO
1. THE “FEDERAL DICHOTOMY” AND GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOMMO-
DATION OF DIVIDED SOCIETIES. 2. FROM SYMMETRIC TO ASYM-
METRIC FEDERALISM: THE GOVERNANCE OF DIVIDED SOCIETIES.
3. INSTITUTIONAL ASYMMETRIC FEDERALISM AND BEYOND:
TOWARD LEGAL GEOGRAPHY. 4. LEGAL GEOGRAPHY AND ITS
CONSTITUTIVE PARTS. 5. FUNCTIONS AND FORMS OF LEGAL GEO-
GRAPHY: REGIONAL DEMARCATION AND TERRITORIAL ALTERA-
TION. 6. THE RATIONALE OF LEGAL GEOGRAPHY: TERRITORIAL
IDENTITY. 7. THE VISIBLE ELEMENTS OF LEGAL GEOGRAPHY:
BOUNDARIES AND IDENTITY. 8. TERRITORIAL ALTERATION AND
THE RESOLUTION OF ETHNIC CONFLICTS. 9. DO ECONOMIC CRI-
TERIA CHALLENGE ETHNICALLY ORIENTED LEGAL GEOGRAPHY?
CONCLUDING REMARKS.
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Fecha recepción: 01.06.2015
Fecha aceptación: 14.09.2015
REGIONAL DEMARCATION,
TERRITORIAL ALTERATION, AND
ACCOMMODATION OF DIVIDED
SOCIETIES
MATTEO NICOLINI 1
University of Verona (Italy)
1. THE “FEDERAL DICHOTOMY” AND GEOGRAPHICAL
ACCOMMODATION OF DIVIDED SOCIETIES
How divided societies co-exist is usually studied within the context of fed-
eralism, which provides arrangements establishing multi- or bi-ethnic consti-
tutional frameworks 2. To this extent, the creation of ethnic-based units has
always been crucial in comparative federal studies: these units aim at fullling
the rationale of multinational federations, preserve territorial and political integ-
rity, and maintain diversity by including different ethnic groups in a single
federal structure. Their creation is thus related to the rationale of multinational
federations, which govern divided societies for the purpose of “holding diver-
sity together”.
Federal and regional constitutions exhibit a high degree of resilience in deal-
ing with the topic at stake. Furthermore, they conrm the essential feature of
1 Assistant Professor, Comparative Public Law, Department of Law, University of Verona
(www.univr.it).
2 See D I. D. (1971), Comparative Federalism: The Territorial Dimension of Politics,
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1971; L A. (1979), “Consociation and
Federation: Conceptual and Empirical Links”, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 12, pp.499-
515; R. Agranoff (ed.), Accommodating Diversity: Asymmetry in Federal States, Baden-Baden, Nomos,
1999; M. Burgess, J. Pinder (eds.), Multinational Federations, Abingdon, Routledge, 2007.
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