Neera Chandhoke

Contested Secessions Rights, Self-Determination, Democracy, and Kashmir

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book approaches contested secession and the more Western concept of consensual secession from a political theory perspective. In particular, it focuses on the Kashmir issue as a form of contested secession and examines whether the Kashmiri people have a 'right' to secede.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780198077978
• ISBN-10: 0198077971
• Artikelnr.: 34554194

Autorenporträt

Neera Chandhoke is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Specificities of Contested Secessions
1: What Sort of a Right Is the Right to Secede?
2: Contextualizing the Right of Secession
3: The Advantages of Plural Societies
4: Self-determination as a Constitutive Aspect of Democracy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index