Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-269) and index.
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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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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