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	There is a new post on The Volokh Conspiracy.  You can read it at:

http://volokh.com/posts/1218432806.shtml

It begins:

	For readers interested in the normative arguments
	for and against a right to secession, I recommend
	Allen Buchanan's 1991 book Secession: the Morality
	of Political Divorce, and Christopher Wellman's
	more recent A Theory of Secession. Unlike me,
	Buchanan advocates a presumption in favor of
	maintaining existing states, though a more limited
	one than under current international law. Wellman,
	by contrast, defends the view that any group should
	have the right to secede so long as it meets
	certain minimal criteria. He contends that a broad
	right of secession is a logical implication of the
	right to political self-determination. Both...