Contextualizing Secession: Normative Studies in Comparative Perspective - Hardcover

by Bruno Coppieters (Editor), Richard Sakwa (Editor)

Bringing together a range of specialists in their respective fields, the book provides a combination of original research with fundamental questions about why states stay together, and above all why sometimes they fall apart. When and under what conditions is the separation of one part of a state from another justified? Written in an accessible and informed manner, the authors seek to answer this question on the basis of ten case studies and a general review of the literature and theories of the question.

Author Biography

Bruno Coppieters is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury