This volume examines the various aspects of territorial separatism, focusing on how and why separatist movements arise.

Introduction: Territorial Separatism in Context, Damien Kingsbury and Costas Laoutides Part I: Territorial Separatism in an Interdisciplinary Perspective 1. Secession: A Much-Contested Concept, Aleksandar Pavkovic 2. Secession: A Question of Law or Fact?, Peter Radan 3. Vertical Distinction as Civic Failure: State-Nation Disjuncture, Damien Kingsbury 4. Negotiating Sustainable Peace in Separatist Context, Costas Laoutides 5. Discursive Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation after Separatist Wars: A Radical Proposition, Richard Jackson Part II: Case Studies 6. Recognition as a Political Act: Political Considerations in Recognising Indonesia's Annexation of East Timor, Clinton Fernandes 7. Containing Separatism? Control and Resistance in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Terry Narramore 8. The Anathema of Partition: The Quandary of Division, Secession and Re-unification in Cyprus, Michális S. Michael 9. Succeeding and Seceding in Iraq: The Case for a Shiite State, Benjamin Isakhan 10. Secessionist Aspects to the Buddhist-Muslim Conflict in Rakhine State, Myanmar, Anthony Ware Conclusion, Costas Laoutides and Damien Kingsbury