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Forgetting ourselves : secession and the (im)possibility of territorial identity

"In Forgetting Ourselves, Linda S. Bishai thoroughly examines why secession has been ignored by the field of International Relations both in theory and in practice. Mainstream perspectives in IR theory have, up to this point, questioned neither state formation nor inside/outside divide of state sovereignty
Print Book, English, ©2004
Lexington Books, Lanham, ©2004
181 pages ; 24 cm.
9780739106662, 073910666X
53145319
If at first you don't secede : international relations theory and its shortcomings
Why the patient cannot be cured
States taking place : history and the territorialization of politics
Begging to differ : patriots, nationalists, and minorities
Secessionist performances, narrating otherness
Inconclusion : forgetting and the theory and practice of the self