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Legal Acts on the Independence of the Baltic Republics 1988–1990 As a Basis for Modeling the Secession Prevention Mechanism

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2021
For modern states, secession is a radical way of resolving the accumulated contradictions between them and the “mother” states, into which they entered for one reason or another. Ever since the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence in
E. E. Haschina
doaj   +1 more source

Recognizing Kosovo’s independence: Remedial secession or earned sovereignty? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper examines the main justifications for recognising Kosovo’s ndependence: ‘remedial secession’ and ‘earned sovereignty’. Our paper begins by examining the applicability of the doctrine of remedial secession to Kosovo, the justifications for which
Bolton, Grace, Visoka, Gëzim
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Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Along arterial roads in northeast India, bordering Myanmar, various armed groups and state actors collect ‘taxes’ at checkpoints. These checkpoints are sites of interaction where the power dynamics between armed groups, state officials and civilians are constantly negotiated, embedded in a larger network of social and political relationships ...
Shalaka Thakur
wiley   +1 more source

Infrastructure expansion, tourism and electoral outcomes

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the electoral impact of economic growth through increased foreign tourism using data from Croatia. To identify causal effects, the paper applies an instrumental variable strategy, which uses variation in the ruggedness of the local terrain to estimate the network of least‐cost paths.
Adrian Mehic
wiley   +1 more source

No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region‐Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies the long‐term effects of the Yugoslav civil war (1987–1995) on subnational economic growth across 78 regions in five former Yugoslav republics from 1950 to 2015. We construct counterfactual growth trajectories using a robust region‐level donor pool from 32 conflict‐free countries.
Aleksandar Kešeljević   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hannes Zebedin: Living in Glass Houses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Catalogue essay for Hannes Zebedin exhibition at Secession, Vienna.
Hammonds, Kit
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Secesja części terytorium państwa w świetle prawa międzynarodowego publicznego. Zarys problematyki

open access: yesActa Iuris Stetinensis, 2019
Secession, in other words, the separation of part of the territory from the mother state, is one of the forms of losing part of the territory, at the same time one of the forms of the creation of a new state, or the annexation of detached territory to a ...
Piotr Łaski
doaj   +1 more source

Selling State Borders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Sovereign territory was bought and sold throughout much of American history, and there are good reasons to think that an interstate market for borders could help solve many contemporary economic and political problems. But no such market currently exists.
Blocher, Joseph
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
wiley   +1 more source

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