ABSTRACT

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.

part I|38 pages

Introduction

part II|92 pages

Self-determination

part III|74 pages

Explaining and justifying secession

chapter 10|13 pages

The Causes of Secession

chapter 11|18 pages

The Lifecycle of Secession

Interactions, processes and predictions

chapter 13|14 pages

Geopolitics of Secession

Secession in the international setting

chapter 14|14 pages

Debating the Right to Secede

Normative theories of secession

part IV|181 pages

Secession strategies

chapter 18|18 pages

Majoritarianism and Secession

An ambiguous but powerful relationship

chapter 20|18 pages

Declarations of Independence

A classification

chapter 22|16 pages

Removing the Government of the Host State

Outside military intervention

chapter 24|16 pages

Surviving Without Recognition

De facto states

chapter 25|13 pages

Engagement Without Recognition

chapter 26|14 pages

Secession and Diplomacy

Playing the state, proving the nation

part V|70 pages

Counter-secession strategies

chapter 27|11 pages

Countering Secession

chapter 28|13 pages

Secessionist De-Mobilization

From ‘exit’ back to ‘voice’

chapter 29|16 pages

The Strategies of Counter-Secession

How states prevent independence

chapter 30|14 pages

How Parent States Prevent Recognition

part VI|66 pages

International law and secession

part VII|94 pages

Constitutional law and secession