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Nov 1, 2007 · The partition of Germany after World War II included its division into two units, West and East, the transfer of prior German national territory to France, Poland and the USSR, and the return of recently “obtained” German national territory in the Sudetenland, and elsewhere. 5 The extension of prior states or provinces is best known as “annexation”—though it may be protested as ...
- Brendan O'Leary
- 2007
Partition is the division of an entity into parts. A political partition has often been considered as an objective description: a previously unified territorial entity is divided into two or more parts. Each is demarcated, perhaps with fences, walls, paint or barbed wire, and official posts, where passports may be demanded.
Separatist Wars, Partition, and World OrderSe. ay 21, 2004Forthcoming in Security Studies∗An earlier version of this paper was presented at the conference, “Ethno-National Con-flicts: Solutions and Dissolutions,” held 13-14 June, 000, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This version appeared as No. 88 of the Leonard D.
- James D. Fearon
- 2004
Partitions. Reshaping states and minds, 2005. The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of the Soviet Union and erstwhile Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the continuing feud between the two Koreas, the Irish peace process, the case of Israel/Palestine and the lingering division of Cyprus have together fuelled new thinking on the strategy and acts of partitioning ...
- Brendan O'Leary
Apr 1, 2022 · The aim of partition was to preserve a balance of power between these powers to prevent further conflict. Partitions were justified as being necessary to preserve international peace and security. Partition was an imperial phenomenon: the ultimate expression of power and the ability to project that power in rearranging the cartography of the world.
Partition may simply be irrelevant as a solution to other civil conflicts, such as most ideological wars and many wars of communal contention over control of the same government. Sec-ond, our theory distinguishes partition from alternative institutional arrangements often bracketed under the same label.
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As sociologist Robert Schaeffer has put it, “The simultaneous devolution and division of power is what distinguishes partition . . . from the division of other countries in previous times.” 8 Political scientist Brendon O’Leary, in demarcating partition from other, related phenomena such as secession, decolonization, and political or military disengagement, offers a further specification ...
