Table of Contents

1: Bruno Coppieters: Introduction
2: Michel Huysseune: A nation Confronting a Secessionist Claim: Italy and the Lega Nord
3: Gunter Lauwers: Discussing Autonomy and Independence for Corsica
4: Nathalie Tocci: Self-Determination in Cyprus: Future Options within a European Order
5: Richard Kerney: Britain and Iralnd: Towards a Postnationalist Archipelago
6: Raymond Detrez: The Right to Self-Determination and Secession in Yugoslavia: a Hornets' Nest of Inconsistencies
7: Alexei Zverev: A Special Status for Tatarstan: Validity of Claims and Limits on Sovereignty
8: Richard Sakwa: Chechnya: A Just War Fought Unjustly?
9: Bruno Coppieters: War and Secession: A Moral Analysis of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict
10: Ronald Rudin: Unravelling Dichotomies: Ethnic and Civic understanding of the Nation in Quebec Nationalist Discourse
11: Xiaokun Song: A Unified China or an Independent Taiwan? A Normative Assessment of the Cross-Strait Conflict
12: Bruno Coppieters: Conclusion: Just War Theory and the Ethics of Secession

About the Author

Bruno Coppieters is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury