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Livingston, Donald, ed. Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 This essay is my short, critical review of Donald Livingston’s anthology, Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century. The contributors of this anthology all argue for secession as a legal and proper tool for calling the Federal government
Jason, Gary James
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Journey to the Centre of the State: Catalans in Madrid and Scots in London
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, comparative studies between Scotland and Catalonia have grown substantially, especially those dealing with the territorial embeddedness of these territories in the United Kingdom and Spain. Despite this, comparative research on the integration of Catalans and Scots in the decision‐making of central state institutions is ...
Javier Antón‐Merino
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National Identity and the Preference for State Opting-Out in the Basque Country [PDF]
We argue that preferences for secession are the expression of common unobserved factors determining national identity, and accordingly that identity matters.
Joan Costa Font, Ramon Tremosa Balcells
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, 1999 Should the constitution of a federation allow for peaceful secession? Constitutionally defined secession rules are optimal ex post if thefederation breaks down.
Bordignon, Massimo, Brusco, Sandro
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
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National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
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Secesja części terytorium państwa w świetle prawa międzynarodowego publicznego. Zarys problematyki
Acta 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
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Municipalities secession and uncertainty on public goods provision [PDF]
This paper investigates the causes of municipalities secession in Brazil. The theoretical modelproposes that the median voter is not fully informed about the efficiency effect of secession on publicgood provision and uses the break up decision undertaken
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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La “Prueba del esfuerzo personal” en la teoría de la intervención militar de Michael Walzer
Co-herencia: Revista de Humanidades, 2019 This paper analyzes the importance of Michael Walzer’s self-help test and discusses its importance as a link between a community’s internal con-flict and foreign military intervention.
Miguel Paradela
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