Liberty, Nationalism, and Secession
ABSTRACT
This colloquium explored the theoretical literature on nationalism and secession by discussing two historical case studies of secession: the American Civil War and the separation of Norway and Sweden.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Washington, George. George Washington: A Collection. Edited by Allen, W.B. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1988.
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord. “Nationality.” Liberty Fund. http://oll.libertyfund.org (July 1, 2009).
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. London: Verso, 2006.
Bovard, James. Terrorism and Tyranny. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Buchanan, Allen. Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec. Boulder: Westview, 1991.
Eland, Ivan. The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed. Oakland: Independent Institute, 2004.
Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation?." in Becoming National: A Reader, Edited by Geoff Eley and Grigor Suny, . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Horowitz, D.L., "A Right to Secede?." in NOMOS XLV: Secession and Self-Determination , Edited by Stephen Macedo and Allen E. Buchanan, 50-76. New York: New York University Press, 2004.
James Madison. "Letter to Alexander Rives, January 1833." Liberty Fund. http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1940/119379 (September 16, 2009).
Johnson, Chalmers. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
Kukathas, Chandran. The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Kymlicka, Will, “Is Federalism a Viable Alternative to Secession?” In Theories of Secession, edited by Percy B. Lehning, 111-150. London: Routledge, 1998.
Mill, John Stuart. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIX - Essays on Politics and Society. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977 [1859]. http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/234/16602 (accessed September 16, 2009).
Nordlund, Karl. The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis. Charleston: BiblioBazaar, 2007.
von Mises, Ludwig. "Liberal or Pacifistic Nationalism." Liberty Fund. http://oll.libertyfund.org (July 1, 2009).
von Mises, Ludwig. Nation, State, and Economy. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006 [1919].http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1819/109485 (accessed September 16, 2009).
Weaver, Richard M. “Two Orators.” Modern Age Volume 14, no. 3-4 (Summer/Fall 1970): 226-242.