This book examines territorial governance in Asia in the context of central-local relations. In an era of attempts to deal with issues such as decentralisation, conflict involving ethnic and religious enclaves, and demands for regional autonomy, it is timely to examine central-local relations in a pan-Asian perspective, assessing the attempts in a range of different constitutional systems from Japan to Myanmar to re-order constitutional structures for local government. The book looks at the constitutional systems for organising central-local relations in Asia and attempts to draw conclusions from contemporary experiences.

1. Analysing Central-local Relations in Asian Constitutional Systems: Decentralising Power in 21st-Century Asia Andrew Harding and Mark Sidel2. Legalising Central-local Relations in China Zhang Qianfan3. Evolving Central-local Relations in a Contested Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Taiwan Jiunn-rong Yeh4. Central-local Relations and the Constitutional Discourse on Political Decentralisation in 21st-Century Vietnam Bui Ngoc Son5. Central-local Relations in Indonesia: Reforming the Integralist StateSimon Butt6. Ethnic Rights and Constitutional Change: The Recognition of Ethnic Nationalities inMyanmar/Burma Melissa Crouch7. The Role of the Central Government and Local Government in Times of Crisis: Japan ' s ExperienceAfter the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Shigenori Matsui8. Local Democracy in a Multi-layered Constitutional System: Malaysian Local Government Reconsidered Andrew Harding