Territorial Separatism in Global Politics: Causes, Outcomes by Damien Kingsbury,Costas Laoutides

This quantity examines many of the points of territorial separatism, targeting how and why separatist hobbies come up.

Featuring essays via best students from diversified disciplinary views, the booklet goals to situate the query of separatism in the broader socio-political context of the overseas procedure, arguing set of historic occasions in addition to neighborhood, local, and worldwide dynamics have converged to supply the catalysts that regularly set off separatist conflicts. moreover, the booklet marks development in the direction of a brand new conceptual framework for the learn of territorial separatism, via linking the survival of groups in foreign politics with the powerful keep watch over of territory and the resultant construction of latest polities. Separatist conflicts problem traditional knowledge pertaining to clash answer in the context of diplomacy by means of unpacking a couple of questions with reference to clash transformation. by using case stories, together with Cyprus, the Rakhine kingdom in Myanmar, the Shia separatism in Iraq, the Uighurs in China and the case of East Timor, the quantity addresses key matters together with the function of democracy, foreign legislation, intervention, post-conflict peacebuilding and the construction of recent political entities.

The publication can be of a lot curiosity to scholars of Intra-StateConflict, clash solution, foreign legislations, safety experiences and overseas Relations.