Creating new states : theory and practice of secession

Creating new states : theory and practice of secession / by Aleksandar Pavković with Peter Radan.

The first part of this volume deals with the practice of secessions. Eight case studies then follow which illustrate peaceful, violent, sequential and recursive secessions. Part two deals with the theoretical approaches.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pavković, Aleksandar
Other Authors: Radan, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Subjects:
Secession.
Nation-state.
Self-determination, National.
nations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Nation-state
Secession
Self-determination, National
Sezession > Völkerrecht
Nationalstaat
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Table of Contents:
  • What is secession?
  • Secessions and secessionist movements
  • Peaceful secessions : Norway, Slovakia and Quebec
  • Violent secessions : Biafra, Bangladesh, Chechnya
  • Multiple secessions and state dissolution : the USSR and Yugoslavia
  • Explanatory theories
  • Normative theories
  • Secession and the law
  • Why new states?

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