Mediating in Cyprus: The Cypriot Communities and the United Nations » (New Edition)

The contributors to this volume address the issues arising from devolution and regional government in two ways. First of all, they explore the debates about devolution in Scotland, Wales and the English regions. This includes the historical development of the devolution proposals, the importance of national and regional identities, the changing devolution policies of the political parties and the approaches of business and other major interest groups towards it.
Secondly, they discuss other political issues in the context of devolution and regionalisation. Thus the creation of Scottish and Welsh Parliaments and English regional assemblies will contribute to electoral reform because proportional representation has been proposed for the elections to them. The controversial issues of how the new assemblies and governments are to be financed is also discussed.
The final essay covers the implications of the emergence of a devolved British state in which the different countries and reg

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Examines the perspectives of the disputants themselves to explain why they seem more satisfied with the status quo on the partitioned eastern Mediterranean island than with the types of resolution that have evolved from one the United Nations' longest peace efforts. Looks at the theoretical debates as a framework for discussing the historical buildup to the outbreak of conflict in 1963 and the peacemaking process from 1964 to 1994. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Introduction - devolution and the UK state, Michael Keating, Howard Elcok; devolution and Europe - Britain's double constitutional problem, Graham Leicester; financial arrangements for UK devolution, David Heald et al; Scottish home rule - radical break or pragmatic adjustment? Lindsay Paterson; what could a Scottish parliament do? James Mitchell; reactive capital - the Scottish business community and devolution, Peter Lynch; deepening democracy - women and the Scottish Parliament, Alice Brown; the devolution debate in Wales - the politics of a developing union state? Jonathan Bradbury; strategies of autonomist agencies in Wales, Jonathan Snicker; English regionalism and New Labour, John Mawson; territorial debates about local government - or don't reorganise" don't don't don't Howard Elcok; what's wrong with asymmetrical government? Michael Keating.