Power-sharing in the Global South: Patterns, Practices and Potentials

Power-sharing serves as a popular conflict resolution device at war’s end. Yet, the performance record of such arrangements is highly variable, sometimes leading to peace and stability and at other times to immobilism and institutional collapse. This book explores the adoption, function, and dissolution of power-sharing arrangements across the Global South, including case studies of Colombia, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Iraq, and others to make sense of this mixed record. Authors identify a range of contextual factors as well as significant variations in the institutional rules and their meaning across the cases that help to explain divergent power-sharing outcomes. Emphasis throughout the chapters is placed on system adaptability for power-sharing success.

Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif is Assistant Professor of politics at the Higher Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences in the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon.

Soeren Keil is Academic Head of the International Research and Consulting Centre at the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Allison McCulloch is Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, Canada.