For centuries autonomy has been a public policy tool used to provide stability and cohesion to multicultural societies. Examining case studies on non-territorial autonomy arrangements in comparison with territorial autonomy examples, this volume seeks to inform both design and decision making on managing diversity.

• Introduction


• Part I: Autonomy and Territory


• 1: Francesco Palermo: Owned or Shared? Territorial Autonomy in the Minority Discourse


• 2: Geneviève Nootens: Can Non-Territorial Autonomy bring an Added Value to Ethnic Politics?


• 3: Ephraim Nimni: Minorities and the Limits of Liberal Democracy: Demoicracy and Non Territorial Autonomy


• 4: Markku Suksi: Non-Territorial Autonomy: The Meaning of '(Non-)Territoriality'


• Part Two: Autonomy in History


• 5: Jan Erk: Non-territorial Millets and Autonomy in the Ottoman Empire


• 6: Bill Bowring: From Empire to Multilateral Player: The Deep Roots of Autonomy in Russia


• Part Three: Territorial and Non-Territorial Autonomy in a Global Perspective


• 7: David Smith: Non-Territorial Autonomy as Political Strategy in Eastern Europe


• 8: Alexander Osipov: Autonomy as Symbolic Production: the Case of Contemporary Russia


• 9: Alexandra Xanthaki: Indigenous Autonomy in the Americas


• 10: Joshua Castellino: Autonomy in South Asia: Evidence for the Emergence of a Regional Custom


• Conclusions

Tove H. Malloy is Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany, and Professor at the Europa-University Flensburg. She holds a PhD in political theory and specializes in the political and legal aspects of national and ethnic minority rights in international Law and international relations, especially in the European context. She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, elected by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in respect of Denmark. She is the author of National Minority Rights in Europe (OUP, 2005) as well as several edited books and numerous articles. Her main research interests include minority citizenship, agonistic democracy, ethno-ecologism, minority indicators, and inter-sectional discrimination. In addition to her academic career, Malloy has served as a diplomat in the Danish Foreign Service.
Francesco Palermo is Director of the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism at EURAC, Bolzano/Bozen, and Professor for Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Verona. He holds a PhD in comparative constitutional law from the University of Innsbruck. He is currently the President of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities of the Council of Europe and a Member of the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter for Local Self-Government. He has been a Senior legal advisor to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, an Adjunct Professor of EU Law at Vermont Law School, and a Visiting Professor in several European universities.