TY - BOOK AU - Pavkovic,Aleksandar AU - Radan,Peter TI - Creating new states : theory and practice of secession SN - 9780754671633 AV - JC311 .P24 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - Secession KW - Nation-state KW - Self-determination, National N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-269) and index; What is secession? -- Secessions and secessionist movements -- Peaceful secessions : Norway, Slovakia and Quebec -- Violent secessions : Biafra, Bangladesh, Chechnya -- Multiple secessions and state dissolution : the USSR and Yugoslavia -- Explanatory theories -- Normative theories -- Secession and the law -- Why new states? ER -