Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and index.
Contents:
Europe's old states and the new order / Jennifer Todd. Theorising the transition : longue duree and current conjucture in centre-periphery relations in Britain, France and Spain / Joseph Ruane -- Conclusion -- Spain : the 1978 constitution and centre-periphery tensions / Jose-Maria Comas -- The British state since devolution : reconfigurations and continuities / Jennifer Todd -- Beyond exceptionalism? Changing regional and local governance in France / Alistair Cole -- Part 2. Regionalism, nationalism, separatism : the changing articulation of peripheral nationalist demands -- Catalonia : autonomous community or nascent state? / Jordi Argelaguet -- A changed Irish nationalism? The significance of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 / Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd -- France's peripheral parties : nuanced demands / Fabien Charlet -- Part 3. The role of institutions : the security forces and the maintenance of order -- The Basque imbroglio : a clash of logics and a multiplicity of actors / Jerome Montes -- The maintenance of order in a changing state : the reform of policing in the United Kingdom / Anne Mandeville -- The maintenance of public order in France : inertia and transformation in the contemporary evolution of French state security / Alain Picard -- Conclusion -- Europe's old states and the new order / Jennifer Todd.
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