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Book review : I want to break free : a practical guide to making a new country

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      University of Malta. Islands and Small States Institute
    • الموضوع:
      2023
    • Collection:
      University of Malta: OAR@UM / L-Università ta' Malta
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Full bibliographic record: Matt Qvortrup (2022). I want to break free: A practical guide to making a new country. Manchester University Press. 167pp, pbk. ISBN: 978-1-5261-6605-0. UK£12.99. ; How does a would-be nation become a legitimate, internationally recognized state? This short, accessible book is framed as a step-by-step guide to nation-building. In it, Matt Qvortrup paints secessionism as a very public divorce; or, at least, a trial separation. His book covers five key issues: history and how to learn from it; starting a successful movement; legal status; international relations; and practical matters, including economics. The book is informed by Qvortrup’s wealth of experience advising governments – and would-be governments – on referendums and state creation. It covers a broad range of states and territories, many of them micronations, from the now-disbanded Principality of Hutt River to the still disputed region of Abkhazia. The cases of Scotland, Catalonia and even Brexit are also considered in detail, as are the recent successful bids for statehood of Montenegro, TimorLeste and South Sudan. The most attention is given to Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea still in negotiations about its future political status after a near-unanimous vote for independence in a 2019 referendum. Bougainville is a useful and highly topical central case study that provides a contemporary grounding for the book. [excerpt] ; N/A
    • Relation:
      Baker, K. (2023). Book review : I want to break free : a practical guide to making a new country. Small States & Territories, 6(1), 83-84.; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/109182
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      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder.
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      edsbas.63BE84C9