A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflicts

by Jonathan Paquin

By examining several cases of U.S. management of secessionist crises in the Balkans and Africa, Jonathan Paquin shows that American foreign policy occasionally recognizes break-away states if it believes that supporting them will help re-establish regional stability. Analyzing examples of such situations reveals that even though US policy apparently favours stable international borders, Washington's primary concern is not to maintain the status quo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773537376
• ISBN13: 9780773537378
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"