Inside the Politics of Self-Determination

Zusatztext Cunningham offers several useful appendices, including lists of self-determination groups within states and brief descriptions of concessions by states to the groups between 1960 and 2005. There is an extensive bibliography. Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Cunningham's work centers on bargaining, conflict, self-determination and strategies of dissent. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland in the Department of Government and Politics, where she is affiliated with the Center for International Development and Conflict Management. Additionally, she is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and a former Fulbright Scholar. Her work on accommodation and civil war in self-determination disputes has been published in top political science journals, including the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science. Klappentext This book demonstrates that the internal political dynamics in states and self-determination groups strongly influences when groups seeking self-determination will be accommodated, when they will engage in civil war, and when they will experience internecine violence within the group. Zusammenfassung This book demonstrates that the internal political dynamics in states and self-determination groups strongly influences when groups seeking self-determination will be accommodated, when they will engage in civil war, and when they will experience internecine violence within the group.

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• Authors: Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher (Assistant Professo Cunningham, Cunningham Kathleen Gallagher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2014
• EAN: 9780199364909
• ISBN: 978-0-19-936490-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law