Perspectives on Secession

Martin Riegl is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Czech Republic). His main research interests include secessionism, state recognition and geopolitical anomalies, particularly with regard to sub-Saharan Africa.  Bohumil Doboš is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Czech Republic). His main research interests are territoriality of non-state actors, neomedieval geopolitics and astropolitics.

• Introduction.- Self-Determination and Secession: The Normative Discourse Yesterday and Today.- Secession in the Post-Truth, Post-Order World: A View from Africa.- Democracy, Realism and Independence Referendums.- Neomedievalism and International Recognition: Explaining the Level of Recognition via Networking.- Foreign Interference in Secession Movements Through the Lens of Game Theory.- Military Intervention in Aid of Secession: Kosovo and its Aftermath.- The Viability of De Facto States: Cases from the Caucasus and the Horn of Africa.- A Mid-Rainy-Season Night’s Dream: Cyber-Secessionism in Cameroon, 2016-2018.- “Free Trieste Movement”: A First Russian Intervention in Domestic Politics of a Western Country?.- Conclusion.