The Ashgate research companion to secession /

"Secession is a detachment of a territory from an existing state with the aim of creating a new state on the detached territory. Secession is usually an outcome of the political mobilization of a population on the territory to be detached and, as a political phenomenon, is a subject of study in...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Pavković, Aleksandar, Radan, Peter
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011.
Subjects:	Secession. Separatist movements. Self-determination, National. Secession > History. Separatist movements > History. Self-determination, National > History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: what is secession? / Aleksandar Pavkovic and Peter Radan
Map of secessions and secessionist movements
Secession: principal aspects
Secessions: past and present
Secession in context
Secession: legal perspectives
Secession: normative approaches
Secessions and secessionist movements in the world.