Unitary state, devolution, autonomy, secession : state building and nation building in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Abstract

There are often difficulties in accommodating the interests of minority nationalities within nation-states. The proliferation of states created by decolonization has magnified such problems. Colonial borders often included groups with emerging identities, and the problems of fostering national cohesion within borders encompassing such diversity has sometimes been especially intense. ; peer-reviewed