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Formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity
Secession is the unilateral withdrawal of an integral part of a state's territory. Secession generally aims to establish a separate political entity, typically a sovereign state, although it may instead seek accession to another existing state. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SecessionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Modulation of sulfur vacancies at ZnIn2S4-δ/g-C3N4 heterojunction interface for successive C-H secession in photocatalytic gaseous formaldehyde complete oxidationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The crook in the lot, or, The sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of menThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Constitutionalism and SecessionCited 160 times
- Go sideways: Self-determinationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Texas secession movementsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The act of seceding.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Constitutionalism and Secession
Theories of Secession
A Liberal Theory of Secession
The Parade of Sovereignties: Testing Theories of Secession in the Soviet Setting
The Dynamics of Secession
Economic expectations and support for secession in Catalonia: between causality and rationalization
Secession: A Comparative Analytical Framework
Between autonomy and secession
🆕 Influential since 2022
Modulation of sulfur vacancies at ZnIn2S4-δ/g-C3N4 heterojunction interface for successive C-H secession in photocatalytic gaseous formaldehyde complete oxidation
Peculiarities of the “Provincial Secession” Style Development in Ukraine At the Beginning of the 20th Century and Modern Problems of Its Monuments Preservation In War Time
Ukraine: remedial secession and Russian aggression
The Burden of a Violent Past: Formative Experiences of Repression and Support for Secession in Catalonia
The strategies of counter‐secession: How states prevent independence
📚 Books worth reading
The crook in the lot, or, The sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of menThomas Boston, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) · 1770
The effect of secession upon the commercial relations between the North and South, and upon each sectionDaniel Lord · 1861
Is Davis a traitor?Albert Taylor Bledsoe · 1866
A theory of secessionChristopher Heath Wellman · 2005
A reply to Mr. Charles Ingersoll's "Letter to a friend in a slave state."M. Russell Thayer · 1862
The great rebellionBotts, John Minor · 1866
Theories of secessionPercy B. Lehning · 1998
Art in Vienna 1898-1918Peter Vergo · 1975
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