The Ashgate research companion to secession

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Secession is a detachment of a territory from an existing state with the aim of creating a new state on the detached territory. This title offers an overview of the theoretical approaches to secession in the social sciences, international relations, legal theory, political theory and applied ethics.Second, to outline the current practice of international recognition of secession and current domestic and international laws which regulate secession. Third, to offer an account of major secessionist movements - past and present - from a comparative perspective. In their accounts of past secessions and current secessionist movements, the contributors to this volume focus on the following four components: the nature and source of secessionist grievances, the ideologies and techniques of secessionist mobilization, the responses of the host state or majority parties in the host state, and the international response to attempts at secession. This provides a basis for identification of at least some common patterns in the otherwise highly varied processes of secession.