Multinational federations / edited by Michael Burgess and John Pinder.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Multinational federations : introduction / John Pinder -- Democratic multinational federalism under scrutiny : healthy tensions and unresolved issues in Canada / Alain-G. Gagnon -- Multinational federations : reflections on the Belgian federal state / Patrick Peeters -- Federalism and competing nations in India / Harihar Bhattacharyya -- Multinational federation : the case of Malaysia / Ismail Bakar -- Federalization in multinational Spain / Luis Moreno -- Russia's multinational federation : from constitutional to contract federalism and the 'war of laws and sovereignties' / Cameron Ross -- What is to be done? : bicommunalism, federation and confederation in Cyprus / Michael Burgess -- Federalism, nationality, statehood : the problem of the European Union / Murray Forsyth -- Federation and managing nations / John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary -- India and Switzerland as multinational federations / Harihar Bhattacharyya -- Multinational federations in comparative perspective / Ronald L. Watts.