Table of Contents

Introduction; M.Keating & A-G.Gagnon PART I: CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES Rethinking Territorial Autonomy; M.Keating Autonomy, Boundaries and Trust: Preliminary Remarks; G.Nootens Reconciling Autonomy, Community and Empowerment: The Difficult Birth of a Diversity School in the Western World; A-G.Gagnon Sub-State Governance through Territorial Autonomy: On the Relationship Between Autonomy and Federalism; M.Suksi PART II: CASE STUDIES Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Territorial Autonomy: Are They Really Incompatible?; F.Palermo Seeking New Autonomies: State Rescaling, Reterritorialization and Minority Identities in Atlantic Canada; J.Bickerton Recrafting Sovereignty: Lessons from Small Island Autonomies?; E.Hepburn Insularity and Autonomy; A.Fazi The 'Canadian School of Diversity' and Francophone Minority Communities; R.Léger Autonomy and Ethnic Diversity: The Case of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China; I.Côté Regions and Territorial Autonomy in Southeastern Europe; D.Stjepanovic Autonomy and Nationalist Demands in Southeast Asia; J.Bertrand Catalan Autonomy Building-Process in Immigration Policy: Conceptual, Institutional and Normative Dimensions; R.Zapata-Barrero Conclusion; A-G.Gagnon & M.Keating