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Democracy and Disintegration
Separatism
Democracy and Disintegration
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As we approach the millennium the world is experiencing civil wars exclusively-half of which are being waged over the issue of secession. This book offers a comparative view of nine historic separatist movements, some of which have achieved the break-up of an empire or a state, and others that to date have not. Separatist struggles occur in waves that tend to coincide with upsurges of democratization. Several chapters explore this connection, making comparisons with economic and geopolitical causes. The authors analyze the long term effects of secession: after partition, ethnic strife typically continues for generations; minorities decline in status; and democracy and human rights are derogated. The break-up of one state often leads to further fragmentation, as in the disintegration of the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian empires, where years later separatism unfolded in the successor states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Palestine, Chechnya and Tatarstan. The authors attribute much of today's separatism to the demagoguery of politicians losing legitimacy in post-communist states, for whom nationalism is a convenient populist ideology. A broader explanation, however, points to the failure of modern democracies to develop constitutional mechanisms reconciling the expression of particularistic identities with the universalism of citizenship. The book reviews proposals toward that end.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 When States Divide
Chapter 4 Separatism: Rationality and Irony
Chapter 5 The Economics of Secession
Chapter 6 The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Chapter 7 Citizenship and the Collapse of the State: The Ottoman Case
Chapter 8 Who or What Broke Up the Soviet Union?
Chapter 9 The Breakup of Yugoslavia
Chapter 10 The Partition of Czechoslovakia
Chapter 11 Chechen Separatism
Chapter 12 Negotiating Autonomy: Tartarstan, Asymmetrical Federalism, and State Consolidation in Russia
Chapter 13 The Tamil Secessionist Movement in Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Chapter 14 Quebec: A Unique Case of Secessionism
Chapter 15 Conclusions
Chapter 16 Select Bibliography
Chapter 17 Index
Product details
| Published | Aug 13 1998 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 346 |
| ISBN | 9780847685851 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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