At a time when the question of separatism is becoming increasingly significant in international politics, The Foreign Policy of Counter Secession is the first a

Produces a clear and original edited volume on the strategies of secession and counter-secession.

Unrecognized states are places that do not exist in international politics; they are state-like entities that have achieved de facto independence, but have fail

This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states. The wo

This book is a comprehensive study of secession from an international law perspective.