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Contextualizing secession : normative studies in comparative perspective /

On the basis of ten case studies, this book provides a combination of research with fundamental questions about why states stay together, and above all why sometimes they fall apart.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Coppieters, Bruno, Sakwa, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Secession > Case studies.
Self-determination, National > Case studies.
Separatist movements > Case studies.
Sécession > Études de cas.
Droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes > Études de cas.
Mouvements autonomistes > Cas, Études de.
Mouvements séparatistes > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Secession
Self-determination, National
Separatist movements
Afscheidingsbewegingen.
Separatisme.
Normative studies
Electronic books.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Bruno Coppieters
  • A nation confronting a secessionist claim : Italy and the Lega Nord / Michel Huysseune
  • Discussing autonomy and independence for Corsica / Gunter Lauwers
  • Self-determination in Cyprus : future options within a European order / Nathalie Tocci
  • Britain and Ireland : towards a post-nationalist archipelago / Richard Kearney
  • the right to self-determination and secession in Yugoslavia : a hornet's nest of inconsistencies / Raymond Detrez
  • Special status for Tatarstan : validity of claims and limits on sovereignty / Alexei Zverev
  • Chechnya : a just war fought unjustly? / Richard Sakwa
  • War and secession: a moral analysis of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict / Bruno Coppieters
  • A case of ambiguity : unravelling dichotomies in Quebec secessionist discourse / Ronald Rudin
  • A unified China or an independent Taiwan? A normative assessment of the cross-strait conflict / Xiaokun Song
  • Conclusion : just war theory and the ethics of secession / Bruno Coppieters.