1. Mapping the Federal Condition: Ideology, Political Practice and Social Justice, Graham Smith.
Part 1: Federations in Crisis?: 2. Requium for Canada?,Colin Williams. 3. Belgium's Regional Divergence: Along the Road to Federation, Alexander Murphy. 4. Federalism, Hindu Nationalism and Mythologies of Governance in Modern India, Stuart Corbridge. 5. Ethnicity and Territorial Politics in Nigeria, Martin Dent.
Part 2 : The Break up of Socialist Federations: 6. Federation, Defederation and Refederation: From the Soviet Union to Russian Statehood, Graham Smith 7. Yugoslavia. Politics, Federation, Nation, Vesna Popovski. 8. Czechoslovakia: The End of a Binational State, Robert Kaiser.
Part 3: Federations in the Making: 9. Spain: A Federation In the Making?,Montserrat Guibernau. 10. Federalism and the Transformation of the South African State, Jennifer Robinson. 11. Arresting Federalisation? Europe, Britain, Ireland, James Anderson. 12. Postscript: Federalism in the Post-Cold War Era, John Agnew. Index.