Purpose - This paper aims to examine the secessionist orientation of Kurdistan Region's paradiplomacy in the context of two main variables: the internal structural variables in Iraq after 2003 and the nationalism variable. Design/methodology/approach - This study relies on the theory of...

However, in the absence of a uniform legal regime for families within the EU, international couples, whether married, registered as partners or in an informal relationship, face legal uncertainty and additional costs in the event of separation or death, making it very difficult for them to know...

We apply insights from the political economy of secession to analyse the early years of the Irish Free State (IFS). The IFS was fortuitous in a debt settlement that enabled it to begin its existence debt free, whilst also receiving financial assistance to quell civil unrest. Yet the IFS was...

Trade liberalization and political separatism go hand in hand. In a world of trade restrictions, large countries enjoy economic benefits because political boundaries determine the size of the market. In a world of free trade and global markets even relatively small cultural, linguistic or ethnic...

"Since the 2007-9 financial crash and its aftershocks, international capitalism has once again been in crisis. In politics, social structure, the economy, culture and ideology, Western democracies seem to be fragmenting. Yet this crisis has been particularly marked in the UK, and its outcome is...

This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Dreze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic...

We analyze how secession movements unfold and the interdependence of regions' decisions to secede. We first model and then empirically examine how secessions can occur sequentially because the costs of secession decrease with the number of seceders and because regions update their decisions...

Many factors influence the onset and outcome of secessionist movements. We argue that before greed, grievance, opportunity, internal politics, or the international system can matter, potential secessionists must have a credible exit option, and in particular unilaterally exit by force. In this...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Contemporary Spain: Democratic and Decentralised -- Chapter 3. The Process Robs Us, Not Madrid -- Chapter 4. The Rebellion and the Separatist Coup -- Chapter 5. Geographical Dimension and Historical Perspective of Catalonia -- Chapter 6. Degree of...

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

En 1960, la dislocation des empires coloniaux conduit à la naissance de nouveaux acteurs étatiques indépendants aux côtés des ex-puissances coloniales qui continuent pourtant d'exister. En conséquence, les banques centrales européennes, des organismes financiers comme la Banque...

Self-Determination and Secession movements have become a recurrent clamour in recent years. States in Africa and beyond have all had their fair share of agitations and Nigeria is not exempted. What is responsible for this new trend? And how have such movements impacted on peace and stability of...

The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. Using several measures of stated and revealed preferences spanning over half a century, we...

This paper discusses Scotland's relationship with the EU in the context of two different secession events. The first concerns the question of an independent Scotland's EU membership in the event of Scotland's secession from the UK. The second discusses the position of Scotland in the context of...

The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...

The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco- Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...

This paper builds a dynamic theory of secessions, conflictual or peaceful, analyzing the forward looking interaction between groups in a country. The proposed framework allows us to jointly address several key stylized facts on secession, and generates several novel predictions. We find that if...

As he did with failure to follow the British model for the office of president, and the separation of power, Madison failed to follow the British precedent of reciprocal rights and mutuality between the wealthy and the common classes.The unwritten constitution of Great Britain is based upon the...

The United Kingdom (UK) has triggered the mechanism to exit the European Union (EU). Such a decision was taken at a referendum held in 2016. The referendum was, however, not legally binding, and only England and Wales, but not Scotland or Northern Ireland, endorsed the option to exit the EU....

The prevalent approach suggests that constitutions are silent about secession and may even implicitly allow it. But an examination of world constitutions reveals that the overwhelming majority of countries vigorously protect territorial integrity. This is true even of countries classified as...

The aim of this paper is to present a review of the legal, theoretical, and empirical aspects of secessions from an economic perspective. This survey provides interesting insights into recent events such as the Brexit and the threat of secession made for instance by Scotland and Catalonia....

This paper builds a dynamic theory of secessions, conflictual or peaceful, analyzing the forward looking interaction between groups in a country. The proposed framework allows us to jointly address several key stylized facts on secession, and generates several novel predictions. We find that if...

Although regional resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate regional resource value and inter-regional transfers in a model on the optimal size of nations, and show that...