Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The Questions
2. Some Thoughts on Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
3. Sources of Ethnic Conflict
4. On Negotiation for a Constitution: General Criteria
Prologue
1. Constitution Makers and Foreign Advisors
2. A Lesson in Self-Knowledge
3. On Asymmetric Federation—and Beyond
4. A Parenthesis: On a Good "Gestalt"
1. Environmental Conditions: Geography, Demography, Ethnicity, Economy
2. Social Conditions: History, Religion, Culture
3. An Interlude: A "Contempt" Theory
4. Political Conditions
1. The Scope and Flexibility of Constitutions
2. On Modifying Constitutions
3. On Supremacy of Federal Law
4. The Constitution as a Symbol
5. On Secession and Referendum
6. The Constitution and Society
7. What Federation?
8. The Arena
First Act
1. "The Hyphen War": A Revelation (January−April 1990)
2. Negotiating a Power-Sharing Law (April−December 1990)
3. The New Power-Sharing Law (December 1990)
1. The Elections
2. Political Differentiation in Context
3. An Afterthought: More on "the Heroes"
4. An Interlude: The Federal Assembly, a Success Story?
Second Act
2. Comments by the International Group
3. The President's Legislative Initiative (March 1991)
4. "From Castles to Manors": Presidential Talks (Winter−Spring 1991)
5. A Side Issue: Moravia-Silesia
6. An Interlude: Bratislava and Prague in Spring 1991
1. The Darkening Sky
2. The Referendum Law Adopted
3. The Republic Legislatures Take Over: New Bottles—Old Wine (September−November 1991)
1. An Appeal to Citizens
2. The Five Legislative Proposals
4. The Federal Assembly Response
5. Some Thoughts and Afterthoughts
6. Coda: Behind the Budget Imbroglio
1. Prelude to Milovy
2. In Snowbound Milovy: An Agreement in Sight?
3. The Milovy Text in the Presidia
4. "The Three Heads" in the Federal Assembly: The Dead End
1. The Campaign
2. The June 1992 Elections: "The Center Cannot Hold"
3. Monday Morning After and Hindsight
4. Prague in Spring 1992: The Last Interlude
Third Act
1. The Five Rounds (June−July 1992)
2. The Context
3. Round Five: A New Political Agreement
4. In the Federal Assembly, Again Referendum? (August 1992)
5. Round Six: Setting the Date
6. Summing Up: Spotlight on "the Heroes-Villains"
1. An Overview
2. The Defiant Federal Assembly (September−October 1992)
3. Toward a New Form of Coexistence: Bilateral Treaties (October−November 1992)
1. New Federal Government Program
2. Dividing Federal Property
3. The Vote
5. At the End: Again the "Extinction" Bill
Fourth Act
1. The Slovak Constitution, September 1992: Montesquieu Bowdlerized?
2. The Czech Constitution, December 1992: Back to 1920?
A Comparative Parenthesis
Epilogue
1. Sources of Ethnic Conflict and Causes of Separation
2. On Eliminating Differences: A Taxonomy Applied
3. On Multiple Transformations
4. "Strategic Elements" of Constitutional Negotiations
5. Forums and Tactics
6. The "Intervenor"
7. The Last Afterthought
Annexes
Annex I: The International Conference, Bratislava, June 1991
1. The Allocation of Powers
2. The Institutional Structure: The Parliament
3. The President: Back to 1920?
4. Ethnic Minorities
5. On Impartial Advice
1. The "Opening" Issue
2. At the Federal Level
3. Constitutions for Independent Republics
4. Concluding Thoughts on the "Opening"
Selected Bibliography
Index