Suggested further readings
Milica Zarkovic Bookman.The Economics of Secession. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Lee C. Buchheit.Secession: The Legitimacy of Self-Determination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
Hurst Hannum. “The Specter of Secession”.Foreign Affairs, 77 (March/April 1998):13–18.
Donald Horowitz. “Irredentas and Secessions: Adjacent Phenomena, Neglected Connections”, pp. 9–22 in Naomi Chazan, ed.,Irredentism and International Politics. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1991.
Maury Klein.Days of Defiance. Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1997.
Percy B. Lehning.Theories of Secession. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Stephen M. Saideman. “Explaining the International Relations of Secessionist Conflicts: Vulnerability Versus Ethnic Ties”.International Organization, 51 (Autumn 1997): 721–53.
Additional information
Edward A. Tiryakian is professor of sociology at Duke University and, in 1997–98, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California. Co-editor (with R. Rogowski) of New Nationalisms of the Developed Westand other writings in the field of comparative aspects of nationalism and national identity, he is preparing an interpretive study of American religious exceptionalism.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Tiryakian, E.A. Secession, autonomy and modernity. Soc 35, 49–58 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686067
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686067