Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cases of asymmetrical territorial autonomy / Stefan Wolff -- The Russian constitutional system : complexity and asymmetry / Bill Bowring -- Partial asymmetry and federal construction : accommodating diversity in the Canadian constitution / Raffaele Iacovino -- Elusive autonomy in sub-Saharan Africa / Coel Kirkby and Christina Murray -- Asymmetry in the face of heavily disproportionate power relations : Hong Kong / Johannes Chan -- Asymmetric autonomy in the United Kingdom / John McGarry -- Thinking about asymmetry and symmetry in the remaking of Iraq / Brendan O'Leary -- The case for asymmetric federalism in Georgia : a missed opportunity / Jonathan Wheatley -- Gagauz autonomy in Moldova : the real and the virtual in post-Soviet state design / Oleh Protsyk -- Asymmetric autonomy and power sharing for Sri Lanka : a political solution to ethnic conflict? / Kristina Eichhorst -- Puntland's declaration of autonomy and Somaliland's secession : two quests for self-governance in a failed state / Janina Dill.

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