Abstract
A central topic of this book is on the phenomenon of secessions, giving birth to a new nation by the division of another or shifting borders between neighboring countries. At first thought, one may view such events as an almost marginal problem in global politics. A truly thorough study of secession movements, however, inevitably leads to more fundamental questions. How do citizens develop solidarity as a nation? What holds nations together and what divides them? Who decides who belongs to a nation? How freely are these decisions made and how freely should they be made in the future by the citizens? And to what extent do these issues raise questions about the current world order, namely how free and open, or authoritarian, the world order should be? In this matter, secession movements are a litmus test. A world order can only be free insofar as citizens are free to decide on their belonging as a people, and thus on possible secession concerns.
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