TY - BOOK AU - Pavkovic, Aleksander TI - Creating new states: theory and practice of secession SN - 9780754671633 U1 - 320.15 PY - 2007/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - Secession KW - Nation-state KW - Self-determination KW - National N1 - 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 -