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Nov 1, 2007 · A national liberation movement, fighting to be free from an empire, may have to carve out its own self-proclaimed national territory, for which it will seek recognition, but might in the process engage in one or more partitions if its liberation struggle leads to fresh jurisdictional cuts across the credibly established homelands of other national communities.
- 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.
Our examination is organized into five major sections. The first of these is a review of the literature which relates to the study of partition as an instrument of politics to theories of national and international integration and to the study of war. The second. Ray E. Johnston is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University.
Nov 1, 2007 · 1. division into parts, esp. Polit. of a country with separate areas of government. 2. a structure dividing a space into two parts, esp. a light interior wall. v.tr. 1. divide into parts. 2. (foll. by off) separate (part of a room, etc.) with a partition. partitioned adj. partitioner n. partitionist n. [ME f.
- Brendan O'Leary
- 2007
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.
THE MODERNITY OF PARTITION. Partition is having a moment. In the past twenty years, the idea of physically dividing territories along ethno-religious lines as a solution to communal strife has suddenly reemerged, conveniently divorced from its disastrously violent history, as a fashionable technique of “conflict resolution.”.
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The partition of Germany after the second world war 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.3 The extension of prior states or provinces is best known as “annexation”—protested as “partition ...
