Research Catalog

Title

Contextualizing secession : normative studies in comparative perspective / edited by Bruno Coppieters and Richard Sakwa.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Coppieters, Bruno
• Sakwa, Richard

Description

x, 286 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Secession > Case studies
• Self-determination, National > Case studies
• Separatist movements > Case studies
• Secession
• Normative studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies (form)
• History (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Bruno Coppieters -- A nation confronting a secessionist claim : Italy and the Lega Nord / Michel Huysseune -- Discussing autonomy and independence for Corsica / Gunter Lauwers -- Self-determination in Cyprus : future options within a European order / Nathalie Tocci -- Britain and Ireland : towards a post-nationalist archipelago / Richard Kearney -- the right to self-determination and secession in Yugoslavia : a hornet's nest of inconsistencies / Raymond Detrez -- Special status for Tatarstan : validity of claims and limits on sovereignty / Alexei Zverev -- Chechnya : a just war fought unjustly? / Richard Sakwa -- War and secession: a moral analysis of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict / Bruno Coppieters -- A case of ambiguity : unravelling dichotomies in Quebec secessionist discourse / Ronald Rudin -- A unified China or an independent Taiwan? A normative assessment of the cross-strait conflict / Xiaokun Song -- Conclusion : just war theory and the ethics of secession / Bruno Coppieters.

ISBN

0199258716

LCCN

^^2003536608

OCLC

• 51779629
• SCSB-11523443

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library