Download or read book Forgetting Ourselves written by Linda S. Bishai and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Forgetting Ourselves, Linda Bishai thoroughly examines why secession has been ignored by international relations both in theory and practice. Mainstream perspectives in international relations theory have, up to this point, questioned neither state formation nor the inside/outside divide of state sovereignty. Bishai, however, historicizes and questions the concept of secession itself, and the component assumptions of territoriality and identity upon which it rests.