De Facto States: The Quest for Sovereignty

by Bahcheli,Tozun; Bahcheli,Tozun

• ISBN13: 9780714654768
• ISBN10: 0714654760
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this new century, the relentless appeal of national self-determination has moved beyond decolonisation. A large group of de facto states, would-be sovereignties, now seek international recognition. In some cases these 'nations in waiting' have already established the exclusivity of their writ on the ground and wait only for the outside world to come to terms with the realities of their existence. In others, there are powerful external players who could undermine their claims on one hand or ensure their success on the other. The cases described in this book are to be found throughout the world: Abkhazia and Chechnya in the Caucasus; Kosovo, Montenegro, Republika Srpska, and Transnistria in eastern Europe; Palestine and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the Middle East; Somaliland in Africa; and Bougainville in the Pacific. Are these isolated voices or a harbinger of things to come? Their demands for separate statehood have breached the orthodoxies of territorial integrity and erodedthe taboos of secession. Other large states, such as Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Sudan, also teeter on the brink of disintegration. This volume for the first time provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical examination of a new and very significant development in the international politics of fragmentation.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Maps	xiii
Introduction: a new world of emerging states	1	(11)
Tozun Bahcheli
Barry Bartmann
Henry Srebrnik
Political realities and legal anomalies: revisiting the politics of international recognition	12	(20)
Barry Bartmann
Republika Srpska	32	(20)
Marie-Joelle Zahar
Montenegro and Serbia: disassociation, negotiation, resolution?	52	(22)
Philip Lyon
Albanian and Serb rivalry in Kosovo: realist and universalist perspectives on sovereignty	74	(28)
Vjeran Pavlakovic
Sabrina Petra Ramet
From frozen conflict to frozen agreement: the unrecognized state of Transnistria	102	(16)
Steven D. Roper
Chechnya	118	(25)
Katherine Graney
The Abkhazians: a national minority in their own homeland	143	(21)
Edward Mihalkanin
Under Turkey's wings: the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the struggle for international acceptance	164	(23)
Tozun Bahcheli
Palestine 2003: the perils of de facto statehood	187	(23)
Dan Tschirgi
Can clans form nations? Somaliland in the making	210	(22)
Henry Srebrnik
Bougainville: the quest for self-determination	232	(13)
Ralph R. Premdas
Conclusion: states in waiting, nations tiring of waiting	245	(12)
Tozun Bahcheli
Barry Bartmann
Henry Srebrnik
Index	257