Secession
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For other uses, see Secession (disambiguation).
Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence).[1] A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal is the creation of a new state or entity independent of the group or territory from which it seceded.[2] Threats of secession can be a strategy for achieving more limited goals.[3]
Notable examples of secession, and secession attempts, include:
- the Confederate States of America seceding from the Union, setting off the American Civil War;
- the former Soviet republics leaving the Soviet Union in 1991, causing its dissolution;
- the former republics leaving Yugoslavia during the 1990s, causing its dissolution;
- Texas leaving Mexico, during the Texas Revolution;
- Biafra leaving Nigeria (and returning, after losing the Nigerian Civil War); and
- the Republic of Ireland leaving the United Kingdom
- Finland leaving the Soviet Union in 1917, setting off the Finnish Civil War