In Secession and Security, Ahsan I. Butt argues that states rather than separatists determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or geno

"The book is an excellent addition to the scholarly literature on subnational movements, both past and present, offering a range of insights to policymakers acr

In recent years, numerous multi-national states have disintegrated along national lines, and today, many more, in both the first and the third worlds, continue

An examination of the reasons independence movements remain peaceful or become violent

About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affectin