Secession and the sovereignty game : strategy and tactics for aspiring nations / Ryan D. Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffiths, Ryan D., author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Secession.

Separatist movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'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 Papua, Bougainville, New Caledonia, and Northern Cyprus, Ryan D. Griffiths shows how the rules and informal practices of sovereign recognition create a strategic playing field between existing states and aspiring nations that he terms 'the sovereignty game'.

Contents:

Many Secessionist Movements, One International System

States, Secessionist Movements, and the International Recognition Regime

A Theory of Secessionist Strategy and Tactical Variation

Catalonia : Drawn in Blood

Murrawarri : Earth, Sky, and Ancestry

West Papua : The Morning Star

Bougainville : A Nation that Has Come of Age

New Caledonia : The Melanesian Tricolor

Northern Cyprus : The Red Banner Reversed

A Macroanalysis of Secessionist Tactics

The Causes and Consequences of Bad Strategy and Poor Tactics

The Future of the Sovereignty Game.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-5474-2

OCLC:

1224041696