Table of Contents

Introduction: Territorial Separatism in Context, Damien Kingsbury and Costas Laoutides Part I: Territorial Separatism in an Interdisciplinary Perspective 1. Secession: A Much-Contested Concept, Aleksandar Pavkovic 2. Secession: A Question of Law or Fact?, Peter Radan 3. Vertical Distinction as Civic Failure: State-Nation Disjuncture, Damien Kingsbury 4. Negotiating Sustainable Peace in Separatist Context, Costas Laoutides 5. Discursive Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation after Separatist Wars: A Radical Proposition, Richard Jackson Part II: Case Studies 6. Recognition as a Political Act: Political Considerations in Recognising Indonesia’s Annexation of East Timor, Clinton Fernandes 7. Containing Separatism? Control and Resistance in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Terry Narramore 8. The Anathema of Partition: The Quandary of Division, Secession and Re-unification in Cyprus, Michális S. Michael 9. Succeeding and Seceding in Iraq: The Case for a Shiite State, Benjamin Isakhan 10. Secessionist Aspects to the Buddhist-Muslim Conflict in Rakhine State, Myanmar, Anthony Ware Conclusion, Costas Laoutides and Damien Kingsbury

About the Author

Damien Kingsbury is the Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights, Deakin University, Australia. He has authored/edited a number of books, including: Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect: Politics, ethnicity, genocide (Routledge 2011), East Timor: The Price of Liberty (2009), International Development: Issues and Challenges (2008, 2012) and Political Development (Routledge, 2007).

Costas Laoutides is a Lecturer in International Relations, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia. He is author of Self-Determination and Collective Responsibility in the Secessionist Struggle (forthcoming).