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Analyzes ethnosecessionist mobilization, ie, political mobilization in support of national independence by breaking away from the existing state. The applicability of theories of ethnic political mobilization is tested in explaining ethnosecessionist tendencies in South Asia in the 1980s. The causal variables that have a bearing on ethnic political mobilization are identified. Using binary coding, each causal variable is linked with the outcome variable for each case selected for study to reveal the various causal combinations of the phenomenon. Using Boolean methodology, the various causal combinations are reduced to determine the minimum causal conjunctures of ethnosecessionism in South Asia, which can be related to the key causal requirements of the different theories of ethnic political mobilization. 1 Table. Adapted from the source document.

Jacques Bertrand offers a comparative-historical analysis of five nationalist conflicts over several decades in Southeast Asia. Using a theoretical framework to explain variance over time and across cases, he challenges and refines existing debates on democracy's impact and shows that, while democratization significantly reduces violent insurgency over time, it often introduces pernicious effects that fail to resolve conflict and contribute to maintaining deep nationalist grievances. Drawing on years of detailed fieldwork, Bertrand analyses the paths that led from secessionist mobilization to a range of outcomes. These include persistent state repression for Malay Muslims in Thailand, low level violence under a top-down 'special autonomy' for Papuans, reframing of mobilizing from nationalist to indigenous peoples in the Cordillera, a long and broken path to an untested broad autonomy for the Moros and relatively successful broad autonomy for Acehnese

A review essay on 7 books addressing the conflict in Kashmir. A mass-based nationalist movement occurred in 1989 in the Kashmir Valley, accompanied by political insurgency headed by the secular Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front demanding independence & union of the Indian & Pakistan sides of Kashmir, & the irredentist groups headed by the Islamic Hizbul Mujahideen demanding unification with Pakistan. Both India & Pakistan have espoused irreconcilable positions on the issue. While Pakistan considers Kashmir a disputed territory, India deems it an integral part of India. A range of multilateral & bilateral solutions are explored, & major events & active key players in Kashmir politics & in the secessionist movement are considered. Contemporary political history of the region is organized in chronological order. The lack of solid political institutions, capable of providing outlets to the dissident population, has been largely responsible for the rise of militancy toward the cause of secession of Jammu & Kashmir from the Indian state. The lack of economic development rather than its excess bred political instability. Among scholars studying Kashmir's secession movement the general consensus is that a resolution of the present crisis will eventually have to entail some sort of autonomy for the state of Jammu & Kashmir. E. Sanchez

Discusses seven books published from 1996-2000 on the ongoing conflict between Kashmiri militants and Indian security forces in the Kashmir Valley divided between India and Pakistan.

"Ethnicity and Nationalism in Wars of Secession" published on by Oxford University Press.

This article examines the impact of diasporas on secessionist conflicts, focusing on the Albanian, Armenian, and Chechen diasporas and the conflicts in Kosovo, Karabakh and Chechnya during the 1990s. How do diasporas radicalize these conflicts? I argue that despite differences in diaspora communal characteristics and the types of the secessionist conflicts, a common pattern of mobilization develops. Large-scale diasporic support for secessionism emerges only after independence is proclaimed by the local elites. From that point onwards diasporas become engaged in a conflict spiral, and transnational coalitions are formed between local secessionist and diaspora groups. Depending on the organizational strength of the local strategic center and the diasporic institutions, these coalitions endure or dissipate. Diasporas exert radicalization influences on the conflict spiral on two specific junctures – when grave violations of human rights occur in the homeland and when local moderate elites start losing credibility that they can achieve the secessionist goal.