Secession and the Sovereignty Game : : Strategy and Tactics for Aspiring Nations / / Ryan D. Griffiths.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Griffiths, Ryan D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 6 b&w halftones, 4 b&w line drawings, 6 maps, 3 charts
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Abbreviations --; 1. Many Secessionist Movements, One International System --; 2. States, Secessionist Movements, and the International Recognition Regime --; 3. A Theory of Secessionist Strategy and Tactical Variation --; 4. Catalonia: Drawn in Blood --; 5. Murrawarri: Earth, Sky, and Ancestry --; 6. West Papua: The Morning Star --; 7. Bougainville: A Nation That Has Come of Age --; 8. New Caledonia: The Melanesian Tricolor --; 9. Northern Cyprus: The Red Banner Reversed --; 10. A Macroanalysis of Secessionist Tactics --; 11. The Causes and Consequences of Bad Strategy and Poor Tactics --; 12. The Future of the Sovereignty Game --; Acknowledgments --; Appendix: Tactics of Compellence and Normative Appeal --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501754760; 9783110739084; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754179; 9783110753943
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501754760?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ryan D. Griffiths.

Secession and the Sovereignty Game offers a comprehensive strategic theory for how secessionist movements attempt to win independence. Combining original data analysis, fieldwork, interviews with secessionist leaders, and case studies on Catalonia, the Murrawarri Republic, West Papua, Bougainville, New Caledonia, and Northern Cyprus, Ryan D. Griffiths shows how the rules and informal practices of sovereign recognition create a strategic playing field between existing states and aspiring nations that he terms the sovereignty game. In order to win sovereign statehood, all secessionist movements have to maneuver on the same strategic playing field while varying their tactics according to local conditions. To obtain recognition, secessionist movements utilize tactics of electoral capture, nonviolent civil resistance, and violence. To persuade the home state and the international community, they appeal to normative arguments regarding earned sovereignty, decolonization, the right to choose, inherent sovereignty, and human rights. The pursuit of independence can be enormously disruptive and is quite often violent. By advancing a theory that explains how sovereign recognition has worked in the past and the present, and anticipating the practices of future secessionist movements, Secession and the Sovereignty Game also prescribes solutions that could make the sovereignty game less conflictual.