National Self-Determination and Secession [Hardcover]

This ambitious study brings together for the first time a series of original essays on the ethics of secession. A host of leading figures explore key issues in this important debate, including, what is a people and what gives them a right to secede? And is national self-determination consistent with liberal and democratic principles or is it a dangerous doctrine?

1. Introduction: The Self-Determination Principle and the Ethics of Secession,Margaret Moore
2. Democracy and Secession Allen Buchanan
3. The Ethics of Secession as the Regulation of Secessionist Politics,Wayne Norman
4. Secession and the Principle of Nationality,David Miller
5. Self-Determination in Practice,Daniel Philpott
6. Liberal Nationalism and Secession,Kai Nielsen
7. The Territorial Dimension of Self-Determination,Margaret Moore
8. National Self-Determination: Some Cautionary Remarks Concerning the Rhetoric of Rights,Ronald S. Beiner
9. Self-Determination: Politics, Philosophy, Law,Donald L. Horowitz
10. Orphans of Secession: National Pluralism in Secessionist Regions and Post-Secession States,John McGarry
11. Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Nationalism,Rogers Brubaker