Secessionism and the European Union : the future of Flanders, Scotland, and Catalonia / Glen M.E. Duerr.
Material type: TextCopyright date: �2015Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780739190852
- 0739190857
- European Union
- European Union
- Secession
- Separatist movements
- Flanders (Belgium) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
- Scotland -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
- Catalonia (Spain) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
- Autonomy and independence movements
- Secession
- Separatist movements
- Belgium -- Flanders
- Scotland
- Spain -- Catalonia
- 320.1/5 23
- JC327
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 29, 2015).
Major secessionist movements in Europe -- Methodology -- Vlaams Belang in Flanders -- Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie in Flanders -- Scottish National Party in Scotland -- Converg�encia I Uni�o in Catalonia -- Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya in Catalonia -- European Union -- Conclusions and why Flanders, Scotland and Catalonia are not independent.
"This study examines three different cases - Flanders in Belgium, Scotland in the UK, and Catalonia in Spain - to investigate how secessionist political parties are approaching the issues of independence. All of these cases are different with respect to history, governmental structure, and economic situation. Yet all of the cases are similar in some ways - they are close to the same size (in terms of population), operate withing mature democratic political systems, have distinct secessionist political parties, and all reside within member states of the EU. Categorically, in all cases there are also shared influences of ability of the region to secede: insitituitons, interests, and ideas"--Back cover.
English.
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