Inside the Politics of Self-Determination

"This book demonstrates that the internal political dynamics in states and self-determination groups strongly influences when groups seeking self-determination will be accommodated, when they will engage in civil war, and when they will experience internecine violence within the group"--

Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland and Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Kathleen Cunningham's work centers on bargaining, conflict, self-determination and strategies of dissent. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland in the Department of Government and Politics, where she is affiliated with the Center for International Development and Conflict Management. Additionally, she is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and a former Fulbright Scholar. Her work on accommodation and civil war in self-determination disputes has been published in top political science journals, including the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science.