Analyzing nineteen cases, Framing the State in Times of Transition offers the first in-depth, practical perspective on the implications of constitution-making procedure, and explores emerging international legal norms. | Learn more

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• PART I: THEORY AND CONCEPTS
• PART II: AFRICA
• PART III: ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
• PART IV: EUROPE
• PART V: LATIN AMERICA
• PART VI: MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA
• PART VII: CONCLUSION 

• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments and Foreword
• Introduction

PART I: THEORY AND CONCEPTS

1. Norms of International Law Relating to the Consitution-Making Process

2. Constitution Making and the Right to Take Part in a Public Affair

PART II: AFRICA

3. Constitution Making in Eritrea: A Process-Driven Approach

4. Nambia's Long Walk to Freedom: The Role of Constitution Making in the Creation of an Independent Nambia

5. Creating the Birth Certificate of a New South Africa: Constitution Making after Apartheid

6. The Politics of Constitution Making in Uganda

7. Zimbabwe's Unfulfilled Struggle for a Legitimate Constitutional Order

PART III: ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

8. The Process of Creating a New Constitution in Cambodia

9. East Timor's Constitutional Passage to Independence

10. Between Coups: Constitution Making in Fiji

PART IV: EUROPE

11. The Drafting Process for the 1998 Albanian Constitution

12. The Dayton Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina

13. Constitutional Making and Transitional Politics in Hungary

14. Constitution Making, Peace Building, and National Reconciliation: The Experience of Poland

15. Constitution Making and Democratization: The Spanish Paradigm

PART V: LATIN AMERICA

16. Conflict Resolution and Constitutionalism: The Making of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988

17. Lessons of the Colombian Constitutional Reform of 1991: Toward the Securing of Peace and Reconciliation?

18. The Nicaraguan Constitutional Experience: Process, Conflict, Contradictions, and Change

19. The 1999 Venezuelan Constitution-Making Process as an Instrument for Framing the Development of an Authoritarian Political Regime

PART VI: MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA

20. Big Tent, Small Tent: The Making of a Constitution in Afghanistan

21. Deconstituting Mesopotamia: Cutting a Deal on the Regionalization of Iraq

PART VII: CONCLUSION

22. Designing Constitution-Making Processes: Lessonsfrom the Past, Questions for the Future

• Index
• Contributors
• Back Matter

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