Secession
Author: Marcelo G. Kohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-03-21
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780521849289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive study of secession from an international law perspective.
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A Constitutional History of Secession
Author: John Remington Graham
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timeless reference on the right of secession from Britainís Glorious Revolution to Canada's current situation. Born in Minnesota, John Remington Graham is a constitutional-law attorney who served as an advisor on secession to the amicus curiae for Quebec.
Secession as an International Phenomenon
Author: Don H. Doyle
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0820337374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbout half of today's nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession. As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader international context one of modern history's bloodiest conflicts over secession. The contributors to this volume consider a wide range of topics related to secession, separatism, and the nationalist passions that inflame such conflicts. The first section of the book examines ethical and moral dimensions of secession, while subsequent sections look at the American Civil War, conflicts in the Gulf of Mexico, European separatism, and conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The contributors to this book have no common position advocating or opposing secession in principle or in any particular case. All understand it, however, as a common feature of the modern world and as a historic phenomenon of international scope. Some contributors propose that "political divorce," as secession has come to be called, ought to be subject to rational arbitration and ethical norms, instead of being decided by force. Along with these hopes for the future, Secession as an International Phenomenon offers a somber reminder of the cost the United States paid when reason failed and war was left to resolve the issue.
National Self-determination and Secession
Author: Margaret Moore (Ph. D.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0198293844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecently, numerous multi-national states have disintegrated along national lines, and today many more continue to witness bitter secessionist struggles. This study brings together a series of essays on the ethics of secession.
Seceding from Secession
Author: Eric J. Wittenberg
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1611215072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening” account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). “West Virginia was the child of the storm.” —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union’s 35th state. Seceding from Secession chronicles those events in an unprecedented study of the social, legal, military, and political factors that converged to bring about the birth of West Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln, an astute lawyer in his own right, played a critical role in birthing the new state. The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president, and he polled every member of his cabinet before signing the bill. Seceding from Secession includes a detailed discussion of the 1871 U.S. Supreme Court decision Virginia v. West Virginia, in which former Lincoln cabinet member Salmon Chase presided as chief justice over the court that decided the constitutionality of the momentous event. Grounded in a wide variety of sources and including a foreword by Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and Chairman Emeritus of the Lincoln Forum, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in American history.
Secession on Trial
Author: Cynthia Nicoletti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-19
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1108415520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the treason trial of President Jefferson Davis, where the question of secession's constitutionality was debated.
Perspectives on Secession
Author: Martin Riegl
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-06-24
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 303048274X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the changing nature of secessionist attempts in connection with rapidly evolving geopolitical and technological landscapes. By presenting theoretical chapters as well as case studies on various secessionist movements around the globe, the contributing authors study a range of topics, including: the role of the media in secessionist conflicts; secessionist referenda and the viability of secessionist attempts in terms of their internal dimension; and external support and interference. The book will appeal to political scientists and international relations scholars who are interested in the processes, politics and geopolitical implications of secessionist movements.
Territorial Politics and Secession
Author: Martin Belov
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-29
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 3030644022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a broad perspective of revolutionary territorial politics by putting secession in the context of other forms of revolutionary territorial politics. This allows for a more complex and profound account of secession and offers the reader a conceptual approach to politics of revolutionary discontent with territorial status quo. Second, the book provides a multidiscoursive approach which combines the efforts of constitutional and comparative constitutional law scholars with international lawyers, EU lawyers and specialists in international relations. This allows for multifaceted and, in that regard, more adequate, balanced and rich analysis of secession and the other forms of revolutionary territorial politics.
The Canadian Contribution to a Comparative Law of Secession
Author: Giacomo Delledonne
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 3030034690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection gathers together Canadian and non-Canadian scholars to reflect on and celebrate the 20thanniversary of the Quebec Secession Reference, delivered by the Canadian Supreme Court in 1998. It opens withtwo Canadian scholars exchanging thoughts on the legacy of the reference from a domestic perspective as one ofthe most questioned decisions of the Canadian Supreme Court. To follow, non-Canadian scholars discuss theimpact of this reference abroad, reflecting upon its influence in European and non-European contexts (Spain,Scotland, the EU after Brexit, Eastern European Countries, Ethiopia, and Asia). Two final chapters, one by a lawyerand one by a political scientist, explore the democratic theory behind that reference.
Secession
Author: Allen Buchanan
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1991-09-25
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book-length treatment of an increasingly crucial topic. Professor Buchanan develops a coherent theory of the conditions under which secession is morally justifiable and applies it to historical and contemporary examples. Buchanan locates his account of the right to secede in the broader context of contemporary political thought, introducing readers to influential accounts of political society, such as contractarianism and communitarianism, and showing how the possibility of secession fits into a more complete account of political community and political obligation.This is an important book, not just for political and social theorists, but for any reader concerned with the future of troubled political federations and other states under conditions of ethnic and cultural pluralism.
