Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia

To Have a State of One's Own
Herausgeber: Cabestan, Jean-Pierre; Pavkovic, Aleksandar

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Secessionist movements are a fact of life and sometimes the interplay of demands becomes mutually exclusive and result in outbreaks of violence or indeed outright warfare. The contributors to this book provide a comparative survey of recent attempts at secession from across Europe and Asia and assesses the responses of the respective host governments. This volume will be an invaluable resource for those who wish to understand the dynamics of secessionist movements and as such will appeal to students and scholars of Asian and European politics, comparative politics, international relations and conflict studies. It will also be helpful to practioners and policy-makers who wish to understand and contribute to the resolution of such conflicts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780415667746
• ISBN-10: 0415667747
• Artikelnr.: 32727281

Autorenporträt

Jean-Pierre Cabestan is Professor and Head of the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also associate researcher at the Asia Centre at Sciences Po, Paris, France. Aleksandar Pavkovi¿ is Associate Professor of Politics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Secessions in Europe and Asia in a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction
1. Sovereignty, National Self-Determination and Secession: Reflections on
state-making and breaking in Asia and Europe Part I Europe 2. Paradise
Lost: Autonomy and Separatism in the South Caucasus and Beyond 3. Patterns
of Secession and Disintegration in the USSR 4. From Yugoslavia to the
Western Balkans, 5. Host State Responses to Ethnic Rebellion: Serbia and
Macedonia in Comparison 6. Seceding by the Force of Arms: Chechnya and
Kosovo 7. Secession and Liberal Democracy: The Case of the Basque Country
8. Nationalism, Unionism and Secession in Scotland Part II Asia 9.
Secessionism in independent India: failed attempts, irredentism and
accommodation 10. Separatism in Sri Lanka 11. Separatism, Ethnocracy, and
the Future of Ethnic Politics in Burma (Myanmar) 12. Language Practices and
Protracted Conflict: The Tibet-China Dispute 13. Separatism in China: The
Case of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 14. The Case of Taiwan:
Independence without Secession?