A collection of state of the art reflections by fourteen leading experts in the field of multinational federalism. Seymour and Gagnon have gathered contributions from philosophers, political scientists and jurists dealing with the accommodation of peoples in countries like Belgium, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, India and Spain.

RAJEEV BHARGAVA Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, IndiaMICHAEL BURGESS Professor of Federal Studies and Director of the Centre for Federal Studies, University of Kent in Canterbury, UK JOHN DINAN Professor of Political Science, Wake Forest University, USAHUGUES DUMONT Professor of Constitutional Law, European Law and Legal Theory, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels JAN ERK Associate Professor/Reader in Comparative Politics, University of Leiden, the NetherlandsALAIN-G. GAGNON Professor in the Department of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Studies, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. MONTSERRAT GUIBERNAU Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor, Centre for Global Governance at the London School of Economics and the Department of Sociology of the University of Cambridge, UK RAFFAELE IACOVINO Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, CanadaMICHAEL KEATING Professor of Politics, University of Aberdeen, UK JOHN MCGARRY Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Trudeau Fellow (2011-14)FERRAN REQUEJO Professor of Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, SpainPHILIP RESNICK Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, CanadaMICHELSEYMOUR Professor of Philosophy, University of Montreal, CanadaDAVE SINARDET Professor of Political and Communication Science, Free University of Brussels and Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Introduction - Multinational Federalism: Questions and Queries; M.Seymour& A-G.Gagnon PART I: THEORETICAL MATTERS Multinational Federalism in Multinational Federation; M.Burgess Three Theories of Liberalism for the Three Theories of Federalism. A Hegelian Turn; F.Requejo What Theorists of Nationalism have to Learn from Multinational States; P. Resnick PART II: THE EUROPEAN EXPERIMENT The European Union, a Plurinational Federation in Sensu Cosmopolitico; H.Dumont Reforging the Nation. Britain, Scotland and the Crisis of Unionism; M.Keating The United Kingdom's Experiment in Asymmetric Autonomy, and the Lessons Learned; J.McGarry Does Devolution Foster Separatism? The Case of Catalonia; M.Guibernau Politics and Public Sphere in Belgium. What the Case of a Federal Multilingual Country can Contribute to the Debate on Transnational Public Spheres, and Vice Versa; D.Sinardet PART III: OTHER CASE STUDIES Asymmetry and Change in the Canadian Federation: The Limits of Political Accommodation in a Multination State; R.Iacovino& J.Erk The Consequences of Drafting Constitutions for Constituent States in Federal Countries; J.Dinan Should Indian Federalism Be Called Multinational?; R.Bhargava Conclusion; M.Seymour& A-G.Gagnon