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The Political and Economic Geography of Southern Secession

Journal Economic History, 2020
We study the economic and political determinants of the Southern secession movement of 1860/61. While economic historians emphasize the importance of slavery to the South’s economy as the primary factor behind the movement, we demonstrate the important ...
M. Chacón, Jeffrey L. Jensen
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Secession

Critical Inquiry, 1997
Abstract The Charter of the United Nations and several other international instruments refer to the concept of self-determination in terms of its relationship to ‘peoples’. Self-determination in international law is the process whereby ‘peoples’ are entitled to determine their own political status.
Wassily Kandinsky, Adrienne Kochman
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The stabilisation dilemma: conceptualising international responses to secession and de facto states

East European Politics, 2019
De facto states challenge traditional concepts of statehood, the territorial integrity of their metropolitan states and the stability of the international system.
Sebastian Relitz
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National Secession

, 2018
National Secession asks which projects for new nation-states give rise to campaigns that cause discord—and sometimes mayhem—in the politics of existing states.
Philip G. Roeder
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Secession in Africa: An African Union dilemma

African Security Review, 2019
Peaceful secession in Africa has become elusive even as there are frequent calls for secession in the African continent. Generally, secession is not popular among African politicians.
A. Ekeke, N. Lubisi
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Civil conflict and secessions [PDF]

open access: possibleEconomics of Governance, 2007
This paper studies secessions as the outcome of conflict between regions. We study under what conditions regions will divert costly resources to fight each other over political borders. We derive the probability of secession and the amount of resources diverted to separatist conflict, and show how those variables depend on factors such as heterogeneity
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Secession

2007
Abstract Until 1914, secession — which may be defined as the creation of a State by the use or threat of force without the consent of the former sovereign — was the most conspicuous and probably the most common method of the creation of new States.
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