Inherently unstable or destabilized by devilish details? A re-examination of the relationship between group autonomy and secessionist conflict — IPSA RC14 2019
Paper re-examining whether territorial autonomy is inherently conflict-prone or whether specific design features explain secessionist violence.
June 12, 2019
conferenceIPSAterritorial autonomysecessionismethnic conflict
At the IPSA RC14 Conference (Sarajevo, June 12–15, 2019), I presented this paper revisiting the debate on autonomy and secessionist conflict. I argued that design details — rather than autonomy per se — explain the association between group self-rule and separatist violence, and offered a systematic typology of the institutional features most likely to backfire.