Review article

Secession, Violence and Reason of State

Aleksandar Pavković orcid.org/0000-0003-3536-3963 ; Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia

Abstract

What means do we have to create new states by secession? The use of force is still a widespread instrument of state creation. But following the successful secession, in 1776 of the USA from Great Britain, mobilizing ordinary citizens to demand and support a state of their own (a state which they control) gradually became the principal instrument of state creation. The paper discusses various patterns of mass mobilization for secession and a few related ethical questions.

Keywords

state creation; secession; mass mobilization; the use of force

Hrčak ID:

146907

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/146907

Publication date:

9.9.2013.

Article data in other languages: serbian

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