Integrating Special-Status Territories into National Political Structures
Journal: OpenDocs (Institute of Development Studies)
Year: 2017

This rapid literature review has searched for experiences of areas or regions that have gone from having a form of special status governance to integration into a national political, legal and administrative system. The focus was on identifying cases similar to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan, and the Government of Pakistan’s proposed reforms to this region (Government of Pakistan 2016). The review sought literature on the domestic management of such a change process a