ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines some general patterns in the fifteen cases where continuing conflict occurs between the central government of a state and a dissident minority in its own region which seeks for a status of independence. It also examines the geographical element in the rise of dissident nationalism. The book suggests that foreign policy should be retained at the centre and home rule in internal affairs allocated to the dissident region. The European Community on the other hand has followed the opposite pattern in creating unity; it has imposed many stringent rules upon member states, with regards to the administration of a number of aspects of their internal affairs and finance, while proving largely ineffective in producing a common foreign policy. The book analyses a measure of agreement appears to exist among the great majority of the inhabitants of the fifteen 'sovereign lands'.
