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b8515m62t6n	Robert Thuan Brathwaite	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Secession and State Formation in the International System, 1815 - 2010	2012		.txt	text/plain	303	12	31	The data comes from a variety of sources, which are listed in the appendix of my dissertation, but the majority of the data was collected from two sources; the Minorities at Risk data project and the Correlates of War data project. Selecting cases that are similar except for the variables of interest (norms of self-determination and liberal democracy, strength of secessionist movement, and proximity to major powers or contiguous rivals) allows me to explain in detail the causal mechanism that leads violent secessionist movements to become recognized as new states in the international system.	cache/b8515m62t6n.txt	txt/b8515m62t6n.txt