Bruno Coppieters is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit BrusselRichard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury

• 1. Introduction ; 2. A nation Confronting a Secessionist Claim: Italy and the Lega Nord ; 3. Discussing Autonomy and Independence for Corsica ; 4. Self-Determination in Cyprus: Future Options within a European Order ; 5. Britain and Iralnd: Towards a Postnationalist Archipelago ; 6. The Right to Self-Determination and Secession in Yugoslavia: a Hornets' Nest of Inconsistencies ; 7. A Special Status for Tatarstan: Validity of Claims and Limits on Sovereignty ; 8. Chechnya: A Just War Fought Unjustly? ; 9. War and Secession: A Moral Analysis of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict ; 10. Unravelling Dichotomies: Ethnic and Civic understanding of the Nation in Quebec Nationalist Discourse ; 11. A Unified China or an Independent Taiwan? A Normative Assessment of the Cross-Strait Conflict ; 12. Conclusion: Just War Theory and the Ethics of Secession

Bruno Coppieters is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit BrusselRichard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury

• 1. Introduction ; 2. A nation Confronting a Secessionist Claim: Italy and the Lega Nord ; 3. Discussing Autonomy and Independence for Corsica ; 4. Self-Determination in Cyprus: Future Options within a European Order ; 5. Britain and Iralnd: Towards a Postnationalist Archipelago ; 6. The Right to Self-Determination and Secession in Yugoslavia: a Hornets' Nest of Inconsistencies ; 7. A Special Status for Tatarstan: Validity of Claims and Limits on Sovereignty ; 8. Chechnya: A Just War Fought Unjustly? ; 9. War and Secession: A Moral Analysis of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict ; 10. Unravelling Dichotomies: Ethnic and Civic understanding of the Nation in Quebec Nationalist Discourse ; 11. A Unified China or an Independent Taiwan? A Normative Assessment of the Cross-Strait Conflict ; 12. Conclusion: Just War Theory and the Ethics of Secession

Bruno Coppieters is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit BrusselRichard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury

• 1. Introduction ; 2. A nation Confronting a Secessionist Claim: Italy and the Lega Nord ; 3. Discussing Autonomy and Independence for Corsica ; 4. Self-Determination in Cyprus: Future Options within a European Order ; 5. Britain and Iralnd: Towards a Postnationalist Archipelago ; 6. The Right to Self-Determination and Secession in Yugoslavia: a Hornets' Nest of Inconsistencies ; 7. A Special Status for Tatarstan: Validity of Claims and Limits on Sovereignty ; 8. Chechnya: A Just War Fought Unjustly? ; 9. War and Secession: A Moral Analysis of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict ; 10. Unravelling Dichotomies: Ethnic and Civic understanding of the Nation in Quebec Nationalist Discourse ; 11. A Unified China or an Independent Taiwan? A Normative Assessment of the Cross-Strait Conflict ; 12. Conclusion: Just War Theory and the Ethics of Secession