Springtime of Nations

An irreverent, informative blog about separatism, autonomy, indigenous rights, interethnic conflict, balkanization, and micronationalism—with maps & flags in every article!

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Saturday, December 20, 2014

10 Separatist Movements to Watch in 2015

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Last year, in my annual look forward at what the coming twelvemonth promises in the way of ethnonationalist struggles and new-state movem...

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Boko Haram, Inspired by Rise of ISIS, Declares Caliphate in Captured Nigerian Towns

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Almost certainly inspired by the success of the Islamic State ( I.S. , also known as ISIS or ISIL ) in capturing and holding a huge ...

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Signs of Kurdish Spring: Syrian Border Trench, Barzani Statements, U.S. Push to Delist P.K.K. All Point to Eventual Independence

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The “Kurdish Spring” in Turkey two years ago never gathered the same momentum toward change at the top as its namesake, the “ Arab Spri...

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Chris Roth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; Chris Roth is a social-cultural and linguistic anthropologist with an interest in the symbolic politics of nationalism and ethnicity. He has worked extensively with indigenous groups in northern British Columbia and southeast Alaska and is the author of an ethnography of the Tsimshian Nation.

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