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Secession and the Sovereignty Game offers a comprehensive strategic theory for how secessionist movements attempt to win independence. Combining original data analysis, fieldwork, interviews with secessionist leaders, and case studies on Catalonia, the Murrawarri Republic, West Papua, Bougainville, New Caledonia, and Northern Cyprus, Ryan D. Griffiths shows how the rules and informal practices of sovereign recognition create a strategic playing field between existing states and aspiring nations that he terms "the sovereignty game." To win sovereign statehood, all secessionist movements have to maneuver on the same strategic playing field while varying their tactics according to local conditions. To obtain recognition, secessionist movements use tactics of electoral capture, nonviolent civil resistance, and violence. To persuade the home state and the international community, they appeal to normative arguments regarding earned sovereignty, decolonization, the right to choose, inherent sovereignty, and human rights. The pursuit of independence can be enormously disruptive and is quite often violent. By advancing a theory that explains how sovereign recognition has succeeded in the past and is working in the present, and by anticipating the practices of future secessionist movements, Secession and the Sovereignty Game also prescribes solutions that could make the sovereignty game less conflictual.

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Comparative politics

International relations

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mai 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501754760
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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SECESSION AND THE SOVEREIGNTY GAME

SECESSION ANDTHESOVEREIGNTY GAME Strategy and Tactics for Aspiring Nations

RYàN D. GrîfithS

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

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First published 2021 by Cornell University Press

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Names: Grifﬁths, Ryan D., author. Title: Secession and the sovereignty game : strategy and tactics for aspiring nations / Ryan D. Grifﬁths. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2020052062 (print) | LCCN 2020052063 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501754746 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501754760 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501754753 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Secession. | Sovereignty. | Separatist movements. | Selfdetermination, National. Classiﬁcation: LCC JC327 .G744 2021 (print) | LCC JC327 (ebook) | DDC 320.1/5—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020052062 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020052063

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List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations

1. Many Secessionist Movements, One International System 2. States, Secessionist Movements, and the International Recognition Regime 3. A Theory of Secessionist Strategy and Tactical Variation 4. Catalonia: Drawn in Blood 5. Murrawarri: Earth, Sky, and Ancestry 6. West Papua: The Morning Star 7. Bougainville: A Nation That Has Come of Age 8. New Caledonia: The Melanesian Tricolor 9. Northern Cyprus: The Red Banner Reversed 10. A Macroanalysis of Secessionist Tactics 11. The Causes and Consequences of Bad Strategy and Poor Tactics 12. The Future of the Sovereignty Game

Acknowledgments Appendix: Tactics of Compellence and Normative Appeal Notes References Index

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Fîgures and Tabes

Figures 2.1. Number of sovereign states and secessionist movements (1816–2017) 13 2.2. Colonial and noncolonial independence movements (1816–2017) 16 2.3. Pathways to independence 24 3.1. Strategy of secession 33 3.2. Secessionist kinds and the wider literature 36 4.1. Map of Catalonia and surrounding territories 50 4.2. The independence ﬂag of Catalonia 54 5.1. Map of eastern Australia and the Murrawarri Republic 70 5.2. The Murrawarri independence ﬂag 72 6.1. Map of West Papua 82 6.2. The Morning Star ﬂag 85 7.1. Map of Bougainville 96 7.2. The Bougainville independence ﬂag 98 8.1. Map of New Caledonia 112 8.2. The independence ﬂag of New Caledonia 115 9.1. Map of Northern Cyprus 129 9.2. The independence ﬂag of Northern Cyprus 132 10.1. Decision tree for sorting tactical kinds 145 10.2. Rate of normative appeal by secessionist kind 153

Tables 3.1. Tactical variation by kind of secessionist movement 38 6.1. Conﬂict data for West Papua, 1946–2016 86 7.1. Conﬂict data for Bougainville, 1975–2016 102 9.1. Conﬂict data for Northern Cyprus, 1945–2016 130