The Routledge Handbook of Self-Determination and Secession explores the various debates surrounding the issues of self-determination and secession, and the legal, political, and normative implications they give rise to.
Offering a broad survey of the state of the sub-discipline today, the chapters are divided into seven key parts: an Introduction, Self-Determination, Explaining and Justifying Secession, Secession Strategies, Counter-Secession Strategies, International Law and Secession, and Constitutional Law and Secession. The authors, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, explore all the recent approaches to secession and self-determination based on strategic interaction of major actors in a secession process.
This handbook will be of great interest to students and researchers from a variety of disciplines including politics and international relations, security studies, and law.
Author(s): Ryan D. Griffths, Aleksandar Pavković, Peter Radan
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 650
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Notes on contributors
Part I Introduction
1 The meaning of self-determination
2 The emergence and evolution of self-determination
3 The meaning of secession
Part II Self-determination
4 Who are the “peoples” entitled to the right of self-determination?
5 Self-determination and decolonization
6 Self-determination and the use of force
7 Minorities, self-determination and secession
8 Indigenous peoples and self-determination in settler states
9 The map makes the people: the territorial nature of self-determination
Part III Explaining and justifying secession
10 The causes of secession
11 The lifecycle of secession: interactions, processes and predictions
12 The causes and consequences of fragmentation in secessionist movements
13 Geopolitics of secession: secession in the international setting
14 Debating the right to secede: normative theories of secession
Part IV Secession strategies
15 Secession and the strategic playing field
16 Strategic choices for secessionist mobilization
17 Referendums as instruments for secession
18 Majoritarianism and secession: an ambiguous but powerful relationship
19 Beyond ‘consensual’ secession? Implicit distinctions and the object(ive)s of consent
20 Declarations of independence: a classification
21 Violent and nonviolent tactics of secession
22 Removing the government of the host state: outside military intervention
23 International power politics and secession
24 Surviving without recognition: de facto states
25 Engagement without recognition
26 Secession and diplomacy: playing the state, proving the nation
Part V Counter-secession strategies
27 Countering secession
28 Secessionist de-mobilization: from ‘exit’ back to ‘voice’
29 The strategies of counter-secession: how states prevent independence
30 How parent states prevent recognition
31 Managing self-determination struggles through decentralization
Part VI International law and secession
32 Self-determination as the basis for a right to secession
33 The acquisition of independence and international boundaries
34 International law and the break-up of Yugoslavia
35 Article 50 of the treaty on European Union: “seceding” from the European Union
Part VII Constitutional law and secession
36 Anti-secession constitutionalism
37 Constitutional law and secession in the United States
38 Constitutional law and secession in Australia
39 The law of secession in Canada
40 Constitutional law and secession in China: a historical outline
41 Constitutional law and secession in the United Kingdom
42 Constitutional law and secession in Spain
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