Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory
variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries …

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and one of the world's most deeply divided societies,
has trodden a complex, turbulent and contradictory political trajectory since gaining …

The problem of ethnic conflict regulation has become increasingly prominent in Europe
since 1989 and the dissolution of communist power; the bloodshed inside the former …

Rotimi T. Suberu is lecturer in political science at the University of lbadan, Nigeria, and a
1993-94 Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC He has …

Federalism is a normative political philosophy that recommends the use of federal
principles, ie combining joint action and self-government (King 1982).” Federal political …

Despite strong optimism that the enthronement of democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999 would
avert or contain ethnic and religious conflicts, the country has witnessed high level ethnic …

Scholars have worked either on civil society or on ethnic conflict, but no systematic attempt
has yet been made to connect the two. In an attempt to explore the possible links, this article …

Armed conflicts have been a permanent feature of the northeastern region since Indian
independence. Surprisingly, relentless conflicts in this remote region of India have received …

This book began life when ethnic conflict and its regulation were not universally fashionable
subjects. Its concerns now have an almost outrageous timeliness. Ethnic conflict is a …

From a theoretical perspective which views constitutions and constitutional arrangements as
forms of political technology, this article argues that Nigerian federalism is based on a theory …