Keeping the peace after secession: territorial conflicts between rump and secessionist states / by Jaroslav Tir

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2005Subject(s): In: The Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol 49 No 5, October 2005, pp.713-741Summary: Considers the effect of secession on relations between the new state and the remainder of the old one. Based on a study of the results of all twentieth century secessions, this article finds that ethnically based territorial disputes play a much greater role in conflict than do their economically or strategically based counterparts, and that peaceful secession leads to peaceful relations.
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Considers the effect of secession on relations between the new state and the remainder of the old one. Based on a study of the results of all twentieth century secessions, this article finds that ethnically based territorial disputes play a much greater role in conflict than do their economically or strategically based counterparts, and that peaceful secession leads to peaceful relations.

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