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Secession and State Creation

What Everyone Needs to Know®

James Ker-Lindsay and Mikulas Fabry

January 2023

ISBN: 9780190494049

176 pages
Paperback
210x140mm

What Everyone Needs To Know®

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This short guide to the timely topic of state creation and secession illuminates the legal, poltical, and practical matters of secession and state creation on a global scale.

  • Explores the intersection of politics, law, history, and international relations in state creation
  • A lucid and authoritative look at a timely issue
  • Provides an introduction to the difficult but unavoidable questions that arise when regions contemplate secession

About the Author(s)

James Ker-Lindsay, Eurobank Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Mikulas Fabry, Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology

James Ker-Lindsay is Eurobank Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. Mikulas Fabry is Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Chapter 1: Statehood and Secession in International Politics
    Chapter 2: Historical Approaches to State Creation and Secession
    Chapter 3: State Creation and Secession since Decolonisation
    Chapter 4: Independence and the Institutions of Statehood
    Chapter 5: Joining the International Community
    Appendix A: Growth of UN Membership, 1945-
    Appendix B: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), 1960
    Recommended Reading
    Index

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