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Cover -- Half Title -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: pluralism, tolerance and the proscription of political parties -- The democratic dilemma of party bans -- Defining 'anti-system parties' and 'party bans' -- Hypotheses and case selection -- Structure of the book and findings -- 1 Theory and research design: from 'militant democracy' to security discourse, institutions and democratic competition -- The 'militant democracy' paradigm -- Hypothesis formation and theory development -- Securitization, veto players and political violence -- Effectiveness of alternatives to proscription -- Democratic competition and government formation -- Expected relationships between variables -- Note -- 2 Ban regimes and banned parties in Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany -- Party bans in Spain -- Party bans in the United Kingdom -- Party bans in Germany -- 3 Herri Batasuna and its successors: from 'terrorist threat' to carrier of a 'Copernican shift' from violence -- Herri Batasuna and successors -- Party ban veto players in Spain -- Proscription of Herri Batasuna, Euskal Herritarrok and Batasuna -- Legalization of Sortu and Bildu -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Sinn Féin and Republican Clubs: from terrorist pariah to republicanism's pathway out of violence -- Sinn Féin and Republican Clubs -- Ban on Sinn Féin and Republican Clubs in Northern Ireland -- Legalization of Republican Clubs and Sinn Féin from Westminster -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 The Socialist Reich Party and National Democratic Party of Germany: from 'militant democracy' to declining anti-system party threats -- The Socialist Reich Party and the National Democratic Party -- Party-ban-veto-players -- The banning of the SRP -- Failed attempts to ban the National Democratic Party -- Conclusion

How does the European Union affect devolution and nationalist conflict in member states? Does the EU reduce the scope of regional self-government or enhance it? Does it promote conflict or cooperation among territorial entities? These are pressing questions in Spanish politics, where devolution has been an important tool for managing nationalist disputes, and for the Basque Country, where protracted and sometimes violent nationalist conflicts persist. Addressing these issues, this book explores prospects for an autonomous Basque role in EU politics; institutional arrangements for autonomous co

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Articles -- The Domestic Politics of Regionalism and European Integration: Introduction -- The Europeanisation of Intergovernmental Co-operation and Conflict Resolution in Belgium: The Case of Agriculture -- European Integration and Intra-State Relations in Germany and the United Kingdom -- Conflict and Co-operation in EU policy-making: The Case of Catalonia -- European Integration and Conflict Resolution in the Basque Country, Northern Ireland and Cyprus -- The Region between the State and Nation: British and Irish Conceptions of Northern Ireland as a European Region -- INTERREG III and Cross-Border Co-operation in the Island of Ireland -- European Integration and Multiple Identities: Changing Allegiances in the Post-Devolution UK? -- The Politics of the Northern League and Italy's Changing Attitude Towards Europe -- The EU, Conflict and Co-operation within Member States: Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

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