title: Self-determination and secession: similarities and differences
abstract: Dealing shortly with some general questions of self-determination, the chapter concentrates on the comparison between secessionist claims and reactions of central authorities and the so-called world community to them in states that belong to the category of post-modernist states (e.g., the United Kingdom vis-à-vis Scotland, Canada vis-à-vis Quebec) and modern or pre-modern states (e.g., Ukraine vis-à-vis Eastern Ukraine or the Crimea). One of his conclusions is that the more reasons a minority m
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