The intent of this project is to study alternative methods of democratic governance under the premise that “small is beautiful” and review the historical trends that have resulted in the evolution of national sovereignty into larger collective bodies that essentially redefine the notion of nationhood and peoplehood.
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Barry Clark deposited Secession and Devolution in Contemporary Geopolitical Theory in the group
The Calhoun Institute for the Study of Secession, Devolution and Concurrent Majority Governance on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
In this inaugural issue of The Calhoun Review we examine the topic of secession, particularly as it applies to contemporary political discussions in the US and internationally. In the standard narrative of US history, particularly as told over the last 30-40 years, Calhoun was the godfather of secession which lead to a war and was proven a flawed…[Read more]