TY  - BOOK
AU  - TIR Jaroslav
TI  - Keeping the peace after secession: territorial conflicts between rump and secessionist states 
PY  - 2005///
KW  - SECESSION
KW  - TERRITORIAL DISPUTES
KW  - ETHNIC CONFLICT
N2  - 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
ER  -