Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions

ISBN-13: 9780198836544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 480 str.

George Anderson; Sujit Choudhry

Recenzje

This compendium offers a unique perspective on a dizzying range of political and violent conflicts in societies rent by territorial cleavages. It leaves us with optimism about how constitutional processes may make such conflicts tractable. While each chapter captures the inescapable logic of institutional and political context, the editors painstakingly, and with great nuance, elaborate a general framework for understanding how divided societies might achieve reconstitution and even coexistence and integration. Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions epitomizes what scholarship on comparative constitutional development should strive to achieve.

O autorze

George Anderson is former deputy minister (permanent secretary) in the Canadian government and subsequently CEO of the Forum of Federations. He has been a member of the Standby Team of Experts in the UN's Department of Political Affairs and consulted extensively around the world. He is currently a fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, and has had earlier resident fellowships at Harvard and New York universities. Sujit Choudhry is an internationally recognized authority on comparative constitutional law, and has been an advised on constitution building, governance, and rule of law processes for over 20 years, including in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Ukraine and Yemen. He founded and directs the Center for Constitutional Transitions (CT).