Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 When States Divide Chapter 4 Separatism: Rationality and Irony Chapter 5 The Economics of Secession Chapter 6 The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Chapter 7 Citizenship and the Collapse of the State: The Ottoman Case Chapter 8 Who or What Broke Up the Soviet Union? Chapter 9 The Breakup of Yugoslavia Chapter 10 The Partition of Czechoslovakia Chapter 11 Chechen Separatism Chapter 12 Negotiating Autonomy: Tartarstan, Asymmetrical Federalism, and State Consolidation in Russia Chapter 13 The Tamil Secessionist Movement in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Chapter 14 Quebec: A Unique Case of Secessionism Chapter 15 Conclusions Chapter 16 Select Bibliography Chapter 17 Index

About the Author

Metta Spencer is associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

A powerful, practical demonstration of the unacceptably high human, social, economic, political, and military costs of separatism and partition through wars of secession. The book proposes political alternatives to promote democracy and protect minority rights through non-territorial electoral constituencies and weighted referendums. Valuable to scholars in many fields and highly recommended as a supplementary college reading, the book is also vital to anyone in the media and the public concerned with multicultural conflict and current international events.
*Andre Gunder Frank, University of Toronto*

The book makes a significant contribution to research on racism by shedding light on the process of the construction of racialized identities, as well as the interconnectednessof race and gender as social constructs. The deconstruction of racial and gender difference in white supremacist discourse reveals their construction to be a political act shaped by power relations.
*Sociological Abstracts, April 2000*

This Volume brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the analysis of various separatist movements for the purpose of generating discourse that could eventually lessen the human suffering that accompanies such movements.
*Sociological Abstracts, April 2000*