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Description

1. xi, 293 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. Ahsan I. Butt argues that states, rather than separatists, determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotiated concessions to large-scale repression, adopted by states in response to separatist movements. Variations in the external security environment, Butt argues, influenced the leaders of the Ottoman Empire to use peaceful concessions against Armenians in 1908 but escalate to genocide against the same community in 1915; caused Israel to reject a Palestinian state in the 1990s; and shaped peaceful splits in Czechoslovakia in 1993 and the Norway-Sweden union in 1905. Using more than one hundred interviews and extensive archival data, Butt focuses on two main cases - Pakistani reactions to Bengali and Baloch demands for independence in the 1970s and India's responses to secessionist movements in Kashmir, Punjab, and Assam in the 1980s and 1990s. Butt?s deep historical approach to his subject will appeal to policymakers and observers interested in the last five decades of geopolitics in South Asia, the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and ethno-national conflict, separatism, and nationalism more generally.

Series statement

1. Cornell studies in security affairs

Uniform title

1. Cornell studies in security affairs.

Subject

1. Separatist movements
2. Case studies
3. Separatist movements > Case studies
4. Internal security > Case studies
5. Secession > Case studies

Genre/Form

1. Case studies.

Contents

1. An external security theory of secessionist conflict -- Pakistan's genocide in Bengal and limited war in Balochistan, 1971-1977 -- India's strategies against secessionists in Assam, Punjab, and Kashmir, 1985-1994 -- The Ottoman Empire's escalation from reforms to the Armenian genocide, 1908-1915 -- Peaceful and violent separatism in Europe, the Middle East, and North America, 1861-1993.

Call number

1. JFE 18-2762

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Butt, Ahsan I., 1983- author.

Title

1. Secession and security : explaining state strategy against separatists / Ahsan I. Butt.

Publisher

1. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Cornell studies in security affairs
2. Cornell studies in security affairs.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2017007187

ISBN

1. 9781501713941 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
2. 1501713949 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 18-2762