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: INTRODUCTION 1. The Meaning of Self-Determination 2. The Emergence and Evolution of Self-Determination 3. The Meaning of Secession PART II: SELF-DETERMINATION 4. Who are the ""Peoples"" Entitled to the Right to Self-Determination? 5. Self-Determination and Decolonization 6. Self-Determination and the Use of Force 7. Minorities, Self-Determination and Secession 8. Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination in Settler States 9. The Map Makes the People: The Territorial Nature of Self-Determination PART III: EXPLAINING AND JUSTIFYING SECESSION 10. The Causes of Secession 11. The Lifecycle of Secession: Interactions, Processes, and Predictions 12. The Causes and Consequences of Fragmentation in Secessionist Movements 13. Geopolitics of Secession: Secession in the International Setting 14. Debating the Right to Secede: Normative Theories of Secession PART IV: SECESSION STRATEGIES 15. Secession and the Strategic Playing Field 16. Strategic Choices for Secessionist Mobilization 17. Referendums as Instruments for Secession 18. Majoritarianism and Secession: An Ambiguous but Powerful Relationship 19. Beyond ‘Consensual’ Secession? Implicit Distinctions and the Object(ive)s of Consent 20. Declarations of Independence: A Classification 21. Violent and Nonviolent Tactics of Secession 22. Removing the Government of the Host State: Outside Military Intervention 23. International Power Politics and Secession 24. Surviving Without Recognition: De Facto States 25. Engagement Without Recognition 26. Secession and Diplomacy: Playing the State, Proving the Nation PART V: COUNTER-SECESSION STRATEGIES 27. Countering Secession 28. Secessionist De-mobilization: From ‘Exit’ Back to ‘Voice’ 29. The Strategies of Counter-Secession: How States Prevent Independence 30. How Parent States Prevent Recognition 31. Managing Self-Determination Struggles Through Decentralization PART VI: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND SECESSION 32. Self-Determination as the Basis for a Right to Secession 33. The Acquisition of Independence and International Boundaries 34. International Law and the Break-up of Yugoslavia 35. Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union: ""Seceding"" From the European Union PART VII: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND SECESSION 36. Anti-Secession Constitutionalism 37. Constitutional Law and Secession in the United States 38. Constitutional Law and Secession in Australia 39. The Law of Secession in Canada 40. Constitutional Law and Secession in China: An Historical Outline 41. Constitutional Law and Secession in the United Kingdom 42. Constitutional Law and Secession in Spain"
Ryan D. Griffiths is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Syracuse University, USA. Aleksandar Pavković is Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University, Australia. Peter Radan is Honorary Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
