Books by Peter Radan

Explores the changes that the international order has brought to the theory and practice of recognition of secessionist claims and to the conditions for secessionist mobilization.

Secession is a detachment of a territory from an existing state with the aim of creating a new state on the detached territory. This title offers an overview of the theoretical approaches to secession in the social sciences, international relations, legal theory, political theory and applied ethics.

This book provides a critical analysis from an international law perspective of the break-up of Yugoslavia and will be of interest to those in the fields of international law and political science