Secession and Security : Explaining State Strategy against Separatists

• Main Author: Butt, Ahsan I
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 2017
• Edition: 1
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Subjects: Armenians; Case studies; Diplomacy; History; India; Internal security; International Relations; Ottoman Empire; Pakistan; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Politics and government; Secession; Security; Security (National & International); Separatist movements; Society and Social Sciences; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations

Since World War II, separatist conflicts have been the most common and deadly types of war in international politics. Such wars result from a simple incongruity: ethno-nationalist groups desire a homeland, but on territory that is controlled by states unwilling to give it up. This book examines stat...