Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: What Is Secession? -- Part I: Introduction to Secession -- 1 Secession and International Order -- 2 The History of Secession: An Overview -- 3 Explaining Secession -- 4 Changing Borders by Secession: Normative Assessment of Territorial Claims -- Part II: Secessions: Past and Present -- Introduction to Part II -- 5 An Attempt at Secession from an Early Nation-State: The Confederate States of America -- 6 The UN Principle of Self-Determination and Secession from Decolonized States -- 7 Constitutional Politics of Secession: Travelling from Quebec to Montenegro (and back?) -- 8 Secession as a Way of Dissolving Federations: The USSR and Yugoslavia -- 9 Kosovo: Secession under UN Supervision -- Part III: Secession in Context -- Introduction to Part III -- 10 Secession from an Economic Perspective -- 11 Secession and Ethnic Conflict -- 12 Secession and Political Violence -- 13 International Involvement in Secessionist Conflict: From the 16th Century to the Present -- 14 The International Relations of Secession -- 15 Secession and Contested States -- Part IV: Secession: Legal Perspectives -- Introduction to Part IV -- 16 Secession and Territorial Borders: The Role of Law -- 17 International Law and the Right of Unilateral Secession -- 18 Secession in Constitutional Law -- 19 To Constitutionalize or Not? Secession as Materiae Constitutionis -- 20 Secession and State Succession -- Part V: Secession: Normative Approaches -- Introduction to Part V -- 21 Internal Self-Determination and Secession -- 22 Remedial Theories of Secession -- 23 Choice Theories of Secession -- 24 Secession and Domination -- 25 The Right to Secede: Do We Really Need It? -- Part VI: Secessions and Secessionist Movements in the World -- Introduction to Part VI -- ASIA.

Case Study 1: Aceh: The Secession That Never Was -- Case Study 2: Bangladesh: Secession Aided by Military Intervention -- Case Study 3: Kashmir: Separatism as Possible Trigger for Inter-State Conflict? -- Case Study 4: Separatism in Mindanao -- Case Study 5: Myanmar/Burma: Secession and the Ethnic Conundrum -- Case Study 6: Singapore: Expulsion or Negotiated Secession? -- Case Study 7: Taiwan-China: A Case of Secession or a Divided Nation? -- Case Study 8: Tibet: Secession Based on the Collapse of an Imperial Overlord -- Case Study 9: West Papua: Secessionism and/or Failed Decolonization? -- AFRICA -- Case Study 10: Eritrea: A Belated Post-Colonial Secession -- Case Study 11: Somaliland: An Escape from Endemic Violence -- Case Study 12: Southern Sudan's Secession from the North -- EUROPE -- Case Study 13: Basque Secessionism: From Bullets to Ballots? -- Case Study 14: Peaceful Secessions: Norway, Iceland and Slovakia -- Case Study 15: Scotland's Independence -- Case Study 16: The Serb Krajina: An Unsuccessful Secession from Croatia -- REST OF THE WORLD -- Case Study 17: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria: Secessions in the Post-Soviet Space -- Case Study 18: Chechnya: A Military Suppression of a Secession at a Cost -- Case Study 19: Kurdistan: A Suspended Secession from Iraq -- Case Study 20: Yemen: The Resurgent Secessionism in the South -- Index.

This research companion has three complementary aims. First, to offer an overview of the current theoretical approaches to secession in the social sciences, international relations, legal theory, political theory and applied ethics. Second, to outline the current practice of international recognition of secession and current domestic and international laws which regulate secession. Third, to offer an account of major secessionist movements - past and present - from a comparative perspective.

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