Texas secession fiction falls into a long line of what-if books exploring alternate versions of history.
"Gorbachev Agrees to Go to Lithuania on Secession Move, " New York Times, 27 December 1989.
It does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and regards it as part of Serbia.
The minority Hindu community suffered disproportionately because some Pakistanis blamed them for Bangladesh's secession.
Only the Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley and adjacent parts of Jammu seem hellbent on secession.
Understand, in the run-up to the recent election our sitting governor talked about secession.
Chechnya's successful war of secession in 1994-96 left its towns and industry in ruins.
That would mean, later, a third referendum on secession and maybe the break-up of Canada.
IR You are right to include a provision for secession in your proposed constitution for Europe.
But the outcome may not reflect a wider resurrection of support for secession in Quebec.
And it is not only al-Qaida that will feel disconcerted by the south's secession.
This happened, but Eritrea's secession left Ethiopia landlocked, dependent on Eritrean goodwill for its trade.
Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union.
But officials have not threatened to invoke an anti-secession law passed by China's legislature a year ago.
"His legacy is alive and well in the secession and Sharia (law) movement in Mali, " said Flood.
Secession was surely not what Colonel Ojukwu had in mind when he became governor of the East.
There is friction between the Kabardins and the Balkars, and in 1992 the Balkars voted for secession.
Theodore Roosevelt fomented Panama's secession from Colombia when the latter refused to let him build his canal.
To the British, however, secession isn't the legal or proper tool by which to settle internal disputes.
The secession question speaks to a larger question: Does the United States have the right number of states?
If not, it was implied, that would give him ammunition for a new referendum (the third) on secession.
The federation of Serbia and Montenegro seems likely to expire when Montenegrins vote on secession on May 21st.
For much of his career Mr Mas did not favour full independence, but now supports secession from Spain.
He was expected to hold a provincial election this year, as a prelude to another referendum on secession.
There are now 178 petitions on the site, about a third of which are demands for state secession.
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Calhoun, who contrived the rationale nullification for Southern secession, and Strom Thurmond, who led the South out of the Democratic Party.
So secession could occur in spring and an election near the year's end.
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By setting a precedent of legitimizing the secession of disaffected minorities, it weakens the long-term viability of multi-ethnic states.
Separatists argue, however, that, though the bill makes secession possible in theory, it would become nearly impossible in practice.
Now he talks stridently of autonomy which the government in Skopje denounces as secession.
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