"The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the nation and the state encompassing it. No such naturalization is possible in multinational states. To explain why these countries experience political crises that bring their very existence into question, standa…
One nation, divisible -- When secession is politically correct -- Secession : a how to guide -- Bigness and badness -- Bigness and happiness -- Bigness and corruption -- Bigness and the military -- Bigness and freedom -- Bigness and wealth -- Secession lite -- Home rule -- Every…
A timely and provocative challenge to the foundations of our global order: why should national borders be unchangeable? The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stability…
"A timely and provocative challenge to the foundations of our global order: why should national borders be unchangeable? The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stabilit…
Secession and the Sovereignty Game offers a comprehensive strategic theory for how secessionist movements attempt to win independence. Combining original data analysis, fieldwork, interviews with secessionist leaders, and case studies on Catalonia, the Murrawarri Republic, West …
Introduction: expectations and exceptionalism -- The Haitian Revolution and slaveholding anxiety -- "Fanaticism" and southern fears of black rebellion -- Atlantic abolitionism and American exceptionalism -- Proslavery fear and the rise of the abolitionist power -- Texas annexati…
An external security theory of secessionist conflict -- Pakistan's genocide in Bengal and limited war in Balochistan, 1971-1977 -- India's strategies against secessionists in Assam, Punjab, and Kashmir, 1985-1994 -- The Ottoman Empire's escalation from reforms to the Armenian ge…
Ahsan I. Butt argues that states, rather than separatists, determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotiated concessions to large-scale repression, adopted by states in response to separatis…
Secession and Self goes beyond debates over the economic and institutional effects of Quebec separation to look at the normative dimensions of resistance to secession. Drawing from Charles Taylor, James Tully, and many others, Gregory Millard explores the central role Quebec pla…
Secession and Self goes beyond debates over the economic and institutional effects of Quebec separation to look at the normative dimensions of resistance to secession. Drawing from Charles Taylor, James Tully, and many others, Gregory Millard explores the central role Quebec pla…
This important study, the first book-length treatment of an increasingly crucial topic, treats the moral issues of secession at two levels. At the practical level, Professor Buchanan develops a coherent theory of the conditions under which secession is morally justifiable. He th…
Der in den modernen Gesellschaften ausgeprägte moralische Pluralismus macht es zunehmend schwieriger, das geltende Recht gegenüber allen Rechtsunterworfenen als legitim zu erweisen.Das Buch untersucht, mit welchen Argumentationsformen die Anhänger unterschiedlicher Moralen einan…
Der in den modernen Gesellschaften ausgeprägte moralische Pluralismus macht es zunehmend schwieriger, das geltende Recht gegenüber allen Rechtsunterworfenen als legitim zu erweisen. Das Buch untersucht, mit welchen Argumentationsformen die Anhänger unterschiedlicher Moralen eina…
