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Strategies of Secession and Counter-Secession (Paperback)
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Strategies of Secession and Counter-Secession (Paperback)
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How can we understand the strategic interaction between
secessionist movements and sovereign states? A casual review of the
many secessionist struggles around the world, both violent and
peaceful, shows a variety of types. Some, like Catalonia, are
pursuing their ends using combinations of electoral capture and
civil demonstrations, just as the Spanish government is working to
delegitimize these efforts and defeat them in the polls. Regions
like Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) lack the same institutional
connectivity with the larger state of Azerbaijan and are relegated
to a de facto (but unrecognized) status where defense, deterrence,
and diplomacy are critical. For its part, Azerbaijan invokes its
territorial integrity and attempts to deny all forms of recognition
to the breakaway region. Other regions from West Papua to Tibet are
faced with the hard choice between civil resistance and the use of
violence, and their states are keen to suppress their efforts and
hide them from the world. What features are common across all of
these examples, and how do they differ? This volume synthesizes a
number of theories and theoretical approaches that purport to
explain the strategies of secession and counter-secession. This is
an important topic. Apart from the many legal and cartographical
issues that attend secessionist activity, the potential for
conflict is a very real concern. Estimates put the share of civil
wars driven by secessionism at about 50%,1 and according to Barbara
Walter secessionism is the chief source of violence in the world
today.2 Secessionism is destabilizing because, at the least, it
presents a direct challenge to existing political systems. Yet
surprisingly, the strategic interaction between states and
secessionists is an area in which we have incomplete understanding.
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