Ahsan I. Butt is Assistant Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
Compellingly and authoritatively researched. The research design—a
case study approach—is exquisite. The case selections and criteria
for comparison are academically sound. Butt also had access to
scores of personal interviews as well as extensive archival data.
The result is a significant and timely contribution to the
scholarship on state decision-making in the international
arena.
*Choice*
The spectacular achievement of Butt's seminal study is that it
offers a refreshing theoretical explanation as to why states employ
different strategies against separatists and, more importantly, it
does so by presenting facts in an unbiased fashion. Secession and
Security's academic rigour, in-depth analysis, accessibility and
balanced objectivity make it a highly commendable contribution to
International Relations theory and conflict studies. Apart from
general readers, I highly recommend this book to scholars and
policy-makers engaged in understanding and resolving the puzzling
equation of state–separatist dynamics.
*International Affairs*
Masterly.
*Northeast Now*
Ahsan Butt makes a useful contribution by highlighting the
international framework in explaining state response to
secessionist movements but his question is very narrowly defined
looking at ethnic difference when its trajectory implicitly or
explicitly is separatist.
*Bloomsbury Pakistan*
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