Word: secessionism
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A double-page spread on the Civil War, for example, provides a chart of slavery in the U.S. from 1790 to 1860, battle maps, a Mathew (misspelled Matthew in the text) Brady photograph, the Union and Confederate statistics at Gettysburg and graphic breakdowns of population, agriculture, manufacturing and finance in...
Where will it all end? Yeltsin has sketched several alternative courses. One would be for Russia to claim its share of Soviet natural resources, establish its own currency, customs union and possibly even army if necessary. That course would amount to outright secession. If Russia took it, and other republics...
How the two paths of reform chosen by Gorbachev and Yeltsin can avoid turning into a collision course is the country's biggest issue. As the situation was fuzzily sketched by Yeltsin, the Russian Republic has three options: go it alone entirely, with its own army, currency and customs system...
Federal President Borisav Jovic bowed to nationalist sentiment this month when he said the troubled country may soon hold a referendum to decide if Yugoslavia's six republics should split into separate nations. "The right of self-determination, including the right of secession," he said, "is a natural political right...
Secession is a fighting word in American history, and territorial aggrandizement has been anathema to the North American political experiment ever since the settlers reached the Pacific. They had left behind two systems of government that have brought grief as well as benefit to mankind: empire and the nation-state...