This short guide to the timely topic of state creation and secession illuminates the legal, poltical, and practical matters of secession and state creation on a global scale.

James Ker-Lindsay is Eurobank Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Mikulas Fabry is Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Statehood and Secession in International Politics


• Chapter 2: Historical Approaches to State Creation and Secession


• Chapter 3: State Creation and Secession since Decolonisation


• Chapter 4: Independence and the Institutions of Statehood


• Chapter 5: Joining the International Community


• Appendix A: Growth of UN Membership, 1945-


• Appendix B: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), 1960


• Recommended Reading


• Index