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This book explores how formal-legalism, as the dominant paradigm of explanation, has sought to explain the phenomenon of secessionism among its practitioners as a problem for the modern state. This study bears how these practitioners have, over time, described, defined, and proposed to solve secessionism and related political problems within the logic of their paradigm. In the process, the book reconstructs the formalist worldview and the practitioners’ fundamental presuppositions which, to them, render comprehensible and meaningful the occurrence of events, like secession, as well as means of dealing with it. More significantly, the book exposes a debilitating flaw of formal-legalist paradigm as it fails to account for other principles of mobilization in political and social life that defy formal-legal rules such as those based on race, ethnicity, language, culture, and material factors. Narrow adherence to textual sources and the literal approach, have led formal-legalists to miss, willfully ignore, or endorse the paradigm's strategic association with state power, evolving since the dawn of the Enlightenment. Formal-legalism has lent itself amenable to the interests of the state and to the variable construction of the meaning of the law devoid of original spirit and universality but conforming with the specific interests of the state or, for that matter, the prevailing American empire, both spatially and temporally. Accounting for this anomaly, the historical materialist perspective is considered, with appropriate historical and contemporary illustrations, as a relevant explanatory alternative to the now-obsolescent formal-legalist paradigm. With the assumption that, indeed, economic and material considerations such as those demanded by the dominant class elements within the state underlie the rationale for the state, formal-legalism has evolved from one that initially provided a presumed objective view of society to one that has subjectively become an essential part of the cultural suprastructure that allows these elements to command the state as a principal tool for labor- and value-extraction during what is popularly known as contemporary neoliberal globalization. Kenneth E. Bauzon, with a doctorate in Political Science from Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, is currently Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph's College in New York, USA. .

Autonomy and independence movements. --- Secession --- Sovereignty --- Separatist movements --- National independence movements --- Secession movements --- Social movements --- Decolonization --- Nationalism --- Political aspects.

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"Whether we talk about human learning and unlearning, securitization, or political economy, the forces and mechanisms generating both globalization and disintegration are causally efficacious across the world. Thus, the processes that led to the victory of the 'Leave' campaign in the June 2016 referendum on UK European Union membership are not simply confined to the United Kingdom, or even Europe. Similarly, conflict in Ukraine and the presidency of Donald Trump hold implications for a stage much wider than EU-Russia or the United States alone.Patomeaki explores the world-historical mechanisms and processes that have created the conditions for the world's current predicaments and, arguably, involve potential for better futures. Operationally, he relies on the philosophy of dialectical critical realism and on the methods of contemporary social sciences, exploring how crises, learning and politics are interwoven through uneven wealth-accumulation and problematical growth-dynamics. Seeking to illuminate the causes of the currently prevailing tendencies towards disintegration, antagonism and--ultimately--war, he also shows how these developments are in fact embedded in deeper processes of human learning. The book embraces a Wellsian warning about the increasingly likely possibility of a military disaster, but its central objective is to further enlightenment and holoreflexivity within the current world-historical conjuncture. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, peace research, security studies and international political economy. "--Provided by publisher.

World politics --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Separatist movements --- Secessionist movements --- Social movements --- Secession --- National independence movements --- Secession movements --- Decolonization --- Nationalism --- World politics. --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations

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Célèbre en Autriche pour son salon au sein duquel elle accueillait les plus grands artistes et intellectuels de son temps ? Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Stefan Zweig ?, Berta Zuckerkandl fut elle-même une critique d'art majeure qui a impulsé et soutenu le développement de l'art moderne au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles. Belle-sœur de Georges Clemenceau, elle s'illustra aussi comme intermédiaire entre la France et l'Autriche en important les œuvres d'Auguste Rodin et d'Eugène Carrière, celles de l'impressionnisme et de l'Art nouveau. Cet ouvrage retrace le parcours hors norme d'une femme engagée qui croyait fermement qu'agir au-delà des frontières, pour établir des échanges artistiques et culturels, permettrait de garantir la paix en Europe.

Women art critics --- Salons --- Secession movements (Art) --- Art nouveau --- Art, French --- Art, Austrian --- Zuckerkandl, Bertha, --- Vienna (Austria) --- Intellectual life --- Aesthetics of art --- salons [rooms for entertaining] --- art criticism --- artists [visual artists] --- Zuckerkandl, Berta --- anno 1900-1999 --- Vienna --- Paris

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Of all the different types of civil war, disputes over self-determination are the most likely to escalate into war and resist compromise settlement. Reputation and Civil War argues that this low rate of negotiation is the result of reputation building, in which governments refuse to negotiate with early challengers in order to discourage others from making more costly demands in the future. Jakarta's wars against East Timor and Aceh, for example, were not designed to maintain sovereignty but to signal to Indonesia's other minorities that secession would be costly. Employing data from three different sources - laboratory experiments on undergraduates, statistical analysis of data on self-determination movements, and qualitative analyses of recent history in Indonesia and the Philippines - Barbara F. Walter provides some of the first systematic evidence that reputation strongly influences behavior, particularly between governments and ethnic minorities fighting over territory.

SELF-DETERMINATION, NATIONAL --- AUTONOMY AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS --- CIVIL WAR --- POLITICAL VIOLENCE --- Civil war. --- Insurgency. --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Political violence. --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- National independence movements --- Secession movements --- Social movements --- Decolonization --- Nationalism --- Insurgent attacks --- Rebellions --- Civil war --- Revolutions --- Government, Resistance to --- Internal security --- Civil wars --- Intra-state war --- International law --- War

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Social movements --- Movimientos sociales --- Movimientos de autonomía e independencia. --- Indios de América del Sur. --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Indians of South America. --- Protest movements. --- Movimientos de protesta. --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indians of South America --- Indigenous peoples --- National independence movements --- Secession movements --- Decolonization --- Nationalism --- Ethnology