Secession

Secession is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance. Some of the most famous and significant secessions have been: the former Soviet republics leaving the Soviet Union, Ireland leaving the United Kingdom and Algeria leaving France. Threats of secession can be a strategy for achieving more limited goals. It is, therefore, a process, which commences once a group proclaims the act of secession (e.g. declaration of independence). A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal is the creation of a new state …

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CEP: Centro de Estudios Públicos · 20 March 2024

Some relevant elements that may combine in composing the apocalypse are the distinction of periods or eras, the linear notion of time, a vision of future events, the feeling of …

experienced the end of the Ming dynasty, the secession of the Spanish monarchy, revolu_ons spreading


World Bank Group · 18 March 2024 English

to self-determination, including the right to secession; speak, write and develop their own languages;


HDRO: United Nations Human Development Report Office · 11 March 2024 English

The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Human Development Report Office …

shows (even fensive force to bring an end to the secession of the when it backfires) is that the United Nations


Amnesty International · 8 March 2024 English

Responding to the release of the full draft text of Hong Kong’s new national security law – known locally as Article 23 legislation – Amnesty International’s China Director Sarah Brooks …

local laws to prohibit seven offences: treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People’s


Cato Institute · 7 March 2024 English

A quarter century ago, Kosovo, part of ever- shrinking Yugoslavia, was ready to explode. An ethnic Albanian insurgency burgeoned, fed by Belgrade's brutal military crackdown. Not eager to jump back …

majority rule in Kosovo? They never supported secession from Yugoslavia and are concentrated in territory


DPG: Delhi Policy Group · 6 March 2024 English

President appears to be the plans to amend the constitution of the Philippines. [...] The calls for secession of the island could threaten the peace brokered by an agreement between the government and the largest

drug abuse has now snowballed into demands for secession, rewriting of the constitution, and an investigation “doomed to fail”14. In response to the calls for secession, National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano stated Galvez Jr expressed strong opposition to the secession demands of Duterte16. Domestically, the escalating extremists and the domestic insurgents. The calls for secession of the island could threaten the peace brokered Marcos 13 Philippine president says call for secession of Mindanao ‘doomed to fail’, Anadolu Agency,


FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 6 March 2024 English

Bottom Line A series of protests in the Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region against Beijing’s erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy have resulted in failure and the imposition of stricter controls. …

against vaguely de�ned crimes including treason, secession, and sedition, over half a million people joined punishment of up to life in prison for subversion, secession, terrorism, or collusion, as de�ned by the Chinese


ASPI: Asia Society Policy Institute · 5 March 2024 English

CFAC meetings are rarely publicized, but the few official readouts that exist show that its membership usually consists of national leaders, including the CCP General Secretary, the Premier, and the …

unification efforts. Xi also reaffirmed the Anti-Secession Law of 2005 by saying 8 that “we do not promise


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 1 March 2024 English

Does capital accumulation increase labor demand and wages? Neoclassical production functions, where capital and labor are q-complements, ensure that the answer is yes, so long as labor markets are competitive. …

2016). Neverthe- less, the slowdown—or even secession—of US real wage growth over the last four decades


MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English

Governments shall take measures, in cooperation with the peoples Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the concerned, to protect and preserve the environment of the territories Human …

the Draft UN Decla­ rather than in terms of secession or independence. The ration on the Rights of Indigenous ‘col­ Balkans, has removed the taboo against secession, and the lective rights’ (Article 7) and the right (Article 4). These ideas have already justify secession. This position has served to strengthen formed powers.8 The former is more secession, if Quebec were to decide on secession through important in the USA 1840 eration and even guarantees the right to secession. The between Maori Chiefs and representatives


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