1st Edition
Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict Debate-Framing and Rhetoric in Independence Campaigns
By Beata Huszka
Copyright 2014
240 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book analyses how national independence movements’ rhetoric can inflame or dampen ethnic violence. It examines the extent to the power of words matters when a region tries to break away to become a nation state.
Using discourse analysis, this book examines how the process of secession affects internal ethnic relations and analyses how politicians interpret events and present arguments with... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Mobilization for Independence in Slovenia 3. Mobilization for independence in Croatia 4. Discursive Construction of the Montenegrin Independence Movement 5. Testing the Model outside Eastern Europe: Spain and Indonesia as Plausibility Probes 6. Conclusions
Biography
Beáta Huszka received her PhD at the Central European University in 2010, and is currently a senior research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Relations in Budapest, Hungary.
