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Ivan Sablin is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana and Research Project Coordinator in the Department of History at Heidelberg University, Germany. His recent publications include "Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union" (Routledge 2024).

Egas Moniz Bandeira is Researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is co-editor, with Ivan Sablin, of "Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913-1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development" (Routledge, 2022).

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Bringing together nine chapters penned by experts in different Area Studies, From Empire to Federation in Eurasia investigates how empires and postimperial regimes - including the Ottoman, Russian, Habsburg, Qing/Republican Chinese, Japanese, and Siamese polities - grappled with the challenges of diversity, decentralization, and self-determination.

Paying attention to both vernacular models and external inspirations, it reframes the study of state-building beyond the Western European and North American contexts. Federalist and autonomist designs served to restructure diversity management, shifting from vertical imperial rights regimes to more horizontal arrangements, often resulting in asymmetric federalism. Although in many cases exclusionary nationalism and centralization triumphed, the diverse visions reveal alternative trajectories of (post)imperial and (post)colonial transformations.

A major contribution to the global history of concepts, institutions, and political practices, this book will appeal to scholars and students of Global and International History, Political Science, and Area Studies - including Eastern European, Eurasian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Studies.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. An Empire's Reexamination of Diversity for Modernization: Ottomanism as Imperial Nationalism 2. Socialism and Decentralization: The Marxist Ambiguity Toward Federalism in the Late Habsburg Empire, 1899-1914 3. Provincial Democracy: Language, Self-Determination, and Federation Debates in Early Twentieth-Century India 4. Siberian Regionalism and Indigenous Self-Government: Buryat and Sakha Agency in Russia's Imperial Transformations 5. Between a United Muslim Nation and Territorial Autonomy: Tatar Political Visions in and After the Russian Empire 6. The Construction of the Yugoslav Kingdom: The Constitutional Debate and Its European Context, 1920-1921 7. Between Provincial Independence and an "Asian Central Government": The Monroe Doctrine as a Federalist Instrument in East Asia 8. Self-Determination, for Whom? A Conceptual Analysis of Chen Jiongming's Federal Manifesto (1927) 9. A Kingdom "One and Indivisible": A (Non-)History of Political Decentralization in Thailand