Texas secession fiction falls into a long line of what-if books exploring alternate versions of history.
"Gorbachev Agrees to Go to Lithuania on Secession Move, " New York Times, 27 December 1989.
It does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and regards it as part of Serbia.
That would mean, later, a third referendum on secession and maybe the break-up of Canada.
But the outcome may not reflect a wider resurrection of support for secession in Quebec.
This happened, but Eritrea's secession left Ethiopia landlocked, dependent on Eritrean goodwill for its trade.
Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union.
Theodore Roosevelt fomented Panama's secession from Colombia when the latter refused to let him build his canal.
To the British, however, secession isn't the legal or proper tool by which to settle internal disputes.
The secession question speaks to a larger question: Does the United States have the right number of states?
If not, it was implied, that would give him ammunition for a new referendum (the third) on secession.
The federation of Serbia and Montenegro seems likely to expire when Montenegrins vote on secession on May 21st.
For much of his career Mr Mas did not favour full independence, but now supports secession from Spain.
So secession could occur in spring and an election near the year's end.
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This precipitated secession by the ten northern tribes, who created the Kingdom of Israel centered in the land of Samaria.
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Other Labour ministers want a party conference sooner, to decide on secession and set a date for new leadership elections.
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And like the Puritans before them, their secession was not merely born out of politics, but out of religious fervor.
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Los Angeles provides the San Fernando Valley (even now pondering secession from the city) with an international port and airport.
Yet while Mr Landry fires away with both barrels, support for secession in Quebece refuses to budge from around 40%.
Back in New York, he opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (in homage to European secessionist movements) at 291 Fifth Avenue.
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But Egypt, concerned to ensure the flow of Nile water, is agitated by the possibility of southern secession from Sudan's Muslim north.
The vote was to take place in January 2011, at the same time as the referendum that led to South Sudan's secession.
That will relieve western diplomats, who have been encouraging Mr Djukanovic to assert his autonomy from Belgrade while stopping short of outright secession.
And Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, Mr Milosevic's boldest opponent, says that Serbia's isolation is pushing his own small republic down the path to secession.
And Spain may be facing a bona fide secession crisis from Catalonia, which would likely mean a meltdown in the Spanish sovereign debt market.
So there are few recent examples of mergers between nation-states (North and South Yemen and the two Germanies are rare exceptions) but many of secession.
Karadzic -- last seen in public in 1996 -- was the Bosnian Serb political leader during the 1992-1995 war that followed Bosnia-Herzegovina's secession from Yugoslavia.
That infuriates (Slavic) Macedonian-speakers, who see autonomy as tantamount to secession.
In Bosnia she called for unity and criticised threats of secession made by Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, the Serb part of the country.
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Unlike Texans, some of whom have long mounted a secession campaign, there are no indications that North Dakotans have any ambitions to go it alone.
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