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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Monday, January 23, 2012

The Moment Burma’s Separatist Minorities Have Been Waiting for

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Burma, known by its ruling junta as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , has reached an historical moment like that of Eastern Europe in ...

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Détente in Ethiopian Civil War—or U.S. Power Play in the Horn of Africa?

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Media have been reporting on a special announcement by the leadership of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) National Council , the most high...

Friday, December 23, 2011

The Iraq War Is Over, but Is Iraq’s Partition Just Beginning?

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On December 15, 2011, President Barack Obama declared that the U.S. war in Iraq his predecessor George W. Bush had started was over, and the...

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Will the Euro Crisis Reunite Belgium While It Divides Europe?

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While the European currency crisis has cast a pall over the world’s financial system and toppled governments in Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and...

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Remembering Odumegwu Ojukwu: On Biafra and on an African Continent Riven by European Borders

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Africans are mourning the death last week of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu , at the age of 78, in a London hospital. The Igbo leader was ...

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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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