This is the first comparative volume available on multinational federations, bringing together an international range of experts on federalism.

1. Introduction: Multinational Federations 2. Democratic Multinational Federalism under Scrutiny: Healthy Tensions and Unresolved Issues in Canada 3. Multinational Federations: Reflections on the Belgian State 4. Federalism and Competing Nations in India 5. Multinational Federation: The Case of Malaysia 6. Federalisation in Multinational Spain 7. Russia's Multinational Federation: From Constitutional to Contract Federalism and the 'War of Laws and Sovereignties' 8. What Is To Be Done? Bicommunalism, Federation and Confederation in Cyprus 9. Federalism, Nationality, Statehood: The Problem of the European Union 10. Federation as a Method of Ethnic Conflict Regulation 11. India and Switzerland as Multinational Federations 12. Multinational Federations in Comparative Perspective