Table of Contents

1. Many Secessionist Movements, One International System
2. States, Secessionist Movements, and the International Recognition Regime
3. A Theory of Secessionist Strategy and Tactical Variation
4. Catalonia: Drawn in Blood
5. Murrawarri: Earth, Sky, and Ancestry
6. West Papua: The Morning Star
7. Bougainville: A Nation that Has Come of Age
8. New Caledonia: The Melanesian Tricolor
9. Northern Cyprus: The Red Banner Reversed
10. A Macroanalysis of Secessionist Tactics
11. The Causes and Consequences of Bad Strategy and Poor Tactics
12. The Future of the Sovereignty Game

About the Author

Ryan D. Griffiths is Associate Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. He is author of Age of Secession. Follow him on X @RyeGriffiths.

Reviews

Griffith's book is grounded in theory, but its greatest value lies in the extensive fieldwork the author has undertaken in places ranging from Catalonia and West Papua to Iraqi Kurdistan and New Caledonia. Griffiths offers a corrective to the work of other researchers who tend to treat these movements with suspicion or hostility: he engages with them on their own terms, and bolsters his analysis of macro-international relations theory with a nuanced understanding of complex realities on the ground. (Times Literary Supplement) Ryan D. Griffiths's Secession and the Sovereignty Game makes an important theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of secession and is an asset for those interested in the study of this issue. Griffiths's Secession and the Sovereignty Game makes an important contribution, both empirically and in terms of theory building, to our understanding of this phenomenon. (H-Net)