"Cornell University Press gratefully acknowledges receipt of funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, through its International Peace and Security Program, which aided in the production of this book."

Dilemmas of state-building in divided societies / Donald Rothchild and Philip G. Roeder -- Power sharing as an impediment to peace and democracy / Donald Rothchild and Philip G. Roeder -- Power sharing in peace settlements : initiating the transition from civil war / Matthew Hoddie and Caroline Hartzell -- Territorial decentralization and civil war settlements / David A. Lake and Donald Rothchild -- Managing diversity and sustaining democracy : ethnofederal versus unitary states in the postcommunist world / Valerie Bunce and Stephen Watts -- Does the choice of electoral system promote democracy? The gap between theory and practice / Benjamin Reilly -- Fiscal politics in "ethnically mined," developing, federal states : central strategies and secessionist violence / Eduardo Alemán and Daniel Treisman -- Power sharing in Lebanon : foreign protectors, domestic peace, and democratic failure / Marie-Joëlle Zahar -- Antecedent nationhood, subsequent statehood : explaining the relative success of Indian federalism / Amit Ahuja and Ashutosh Varshney -- Obstacles to implementing territorial decentralization : the first decade of Ethiopian federalism / Edmond J. Keller and Lahra Smith -- Power sharing as an interim step in peace building : lessons from South Africa / Timothy D. Sisk and Christoph Stefes -- Nation-state stewardship and the alternatives to power sharing / Philip G. Roeder and Donald Rothchild.