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Creating new states : theory and practice of secession / by Aleksandar Pavkovic with Peter Radan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pavković, Aleksandar.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secession.
- Nation-state.
- Self-determination, National.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This key volume examines the political, social and legal processes of the practice of secession, carefully illustrated by eight case studies. It systematizes our present knowledge of secession in an accessible way to readers not familiar with the phenomenon and its consequences.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-269) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-57462-4
- 1-317-15847-4
- 1-317-15846-6
- 1-281-23832-5
- 9786611238322
- 0-7546-8518-7
- 9781315574622
- OCLC:
- 318536731
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