Ahsan I. Butt, "Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy against Separatists "
English | ISBN: 1501713949 | 2017 | 308 pages | EPUB | 689 KB
English | ISBN: 1501713949 | 2017 | 308 pages | EPUB | 689 KB
In Secession and Security, Ahsan I. Butt argues that states rather than separatists determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotiated concessions to large-scale repression, adopted by states in response to separatist movements. Variations in the external security environment, Butt argues, influenced the leaders of the Ottoman Empire to use peaceful concessions against Armenians in 1908 but escalated to genocide against the same community in 1915; caused Israel to reject a Palestinian state in the 1990s; and shaped peaceful splits in Czechoslovakia in 1993 and the Norway-Sweden union in 1905.
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