Bulletin n. 2-3/2013
February 2014
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Roeder Philip G.
    Secessionism, Institutions, and Change
    in Ethnopolitics , Volume 13, Issue 1, 2014 ,  2014 ,  86-104
    A nation-state project is a claim that a specific population (purportedly a nation) should be self-governing within a sovereign state of its own (Roeder, 2007, p. 12). The world is dotted with hopeful nation-state projects—perhaps thousands of projects—although there is no way to count them all. Most remain the pet projects of solitary intellectuals; sometimes they attract a narrow circle of fellow patriots. Only some projects attract enough followers to be considered movements, but even most movements remain uncoordinated and impotent. Very few achieve the objective of a sovereign state. A search of the Times of London, the New York Times and Keesing's Contemporary Archives between January 1945 and December 2010, checked for completeness against handbooks of stateless nations (Minahan, 1996, 2002) and websites of liberation organizations and associations, identifies 171 nation-state projects that have sought to secede from the metropole of an existing state and have been able to get on the public agenda at one or more times so as to draw international press attention—what I label ‘significant nationalist-secessionist projects’, as a shorthand.
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