Somalia seeks to unite all Somalies under one flag and Inner Mongolia to unite under Outer Mongolia, the Basquest want independence from Spain, the Kurds from Turkey, Quebec from Canada to name but a few. This work describes the world's main ethnic separatist and unification crusades, organizations, parties, campaigns, political events, and leaders.; Individual entries examine the full range of movements and insurgencies and include: Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Switzerland, Miskitos, Pathans, Baluchis, South Moluccans, Karens, Moros, Berbers, Katanga, Eritrea, and New Caledonia.; An introductory essay defines and explains ethnic separatist and unification movements, including causes and outcomes, and a chronology places events in historical perspective.

Includes maps of: Africa; Australia and Oceania; Europe; South Asia; Russia; North America and the Caribbean; Afghanistan; South Africa (2); [Southwestern United States - Hispanic Population Projections for 2020]; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Burma; China's Minority Nationalities; Ethiopia; Federation of West Indies; [India]; [Israel and the Sinai]; Special Regions in Italy; [Kurdistan]; Lebanon - Zones of Control and Religious Sects; Republic of Ireland [Religious Distribution]; West Bank Control Areas; [Quebec]; Somalia; Sri Lanka Ethnic Majority Areas; Religious Distribution [of the Former Yugoslavia].

Abkhazia -- Abrene -- Aceh -- Adams, Gerry -- Adygea -- Adzharia -- Afar -- Afghanistan -- Afrikaners -- Albizu, Pedro -- Alsace -- American Indian Movement -- Andalusia -- Anglo-Irish Agreement -- Anglo-Saxonism -- Angola -- Anguilla -- Apartheid -- Arabistan -- Arabs -- Arafat, Yasir -- Arakan -- Armenia -- Armenian Georgians -- Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia -- Ashanti -- Assam -- Australian Aborigines -- Azerbaijan -- Azores -- Aztlan -- Baluchistan -- Baluchistan Liberation Front -- Banaba -- Bangladesh -- Barbuda -- Barotseland -- Bashkortostan -- Basques -- Bavaria -- Befreiungs Ausschuss Sudtirol -- Begin, Menachem -- Belarus -- Belgium -- Belize -- Ben-Gurion, David -- Bhutan -- Biafra -- Black Homelands -- Black Separatism in the United States -- Bophuthatswana -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Bougainville -- Brittany -- Buganda -- Burma -- Buryatia -- Buthelezi, Mangosuthu -- Cameroon -- Canary Islands -- Cape Verde -- Casamance -- Catalonia -- Cesaire, Aime -- Ceuta and Melilla -- Chad -- Chameria -- Chechnya -- Chicano Movement -- China's Nationality Policy -- Chittagong Hill Tracts -- Chuvashia -- Ciskei -- The Commonwealth -- Commonwealth of Independent States -- Comoros -- Confederation of the Caucasian Peoples -- Cordillera Autonomy Movement -- Corsica -- Cossacks -- Crimea -- Crimean Russians -- Crimean Tatars -- Croatia -- Cyprus -- Czech Republic -- Dagestan -- Dayton Peace Accord -- Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- Djibouti -- Donbas Russians -- Dudayev, Dzhokhar -- East African Federation -- East Timor -- Egypt's Claim to the Sudan -- Enbata -- English Speaking Union -- Eritrea -- Eritrean Liberation Front -- Eritrean People's Liberation Front -- Estonia -- Ethiopia -- Ethnic Cleansing -- Ethnike Organosis Kyprion Agoniston -- European Union -- Euzkadi ta Askatasuna -- Ewe -- Faeroe Islands -- Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas -- Fatah -- Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland -- Federation of the West Indies -- Fernando Poo -- France -- French Guiana -- French Language Charter -- French Polynesia -- French West Africa -- Friesland -- Friuli -- Front de Liberation de la Bretagne -- Front de Liberation du Quebec -- Front de Liberation Nationale de la Corse -- Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional -- Gagauzia -- Galicia -- Gambia -- Gazankulu -- Georgia -- German Reunification -- Ghana -- Ghorkhaland -- Gibraltar -- Goa -- Greater Albania -- Greater Serbia -- Greenland -- Grivas, George -- Guadeloupe -- Guyana -- Haganah -- Hamas -- Hawaii -- Herzeg-Bosnia -- Hezbollah -- Hong Kong -- Hume, John -- Hungarians -- Hutt River Province -- India -- Indigenous Peoples -- Indonesia -- Ingushetia -- Intifada -- Iranian Azerbaijan -- Iranian Kurds -- Iraqi Kurds -- Irgun -- Irish Republican Army -- Irredentism -- Islamic Jihad -- Israel -- Istria -- Italy -- Izetbegovic, Alija -- Jammu and Kashmir -- Jharkand -- Jinnah, Mohammad Ali -- Jura -- Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide -- Kabaka Yekka -- Kabardino-Balkaria -- Kachin -- Kalimantan Utara -- Kalmykia -- Karachai-Cherkessia -- Karadzic, Radovan -- Karelia -- Karen -- Katanga -- Kazakhstan -- Kenya -- Khalistan -- Komi -- Korean Reunification -- Kosovo -- Kosovo Liberation Army -- Krajina -- Krasnodar -- Kurdistan -- Kurdistan Democratic Party -- Kuwait -- KwaNdebele -- KwaZulu -- Kyrgyzstan -- Lakota Nation -- Latvia -- League of Empire Loyalists -- League of the South -- Lebanon -- Lebowa -- Levesque, Rene -- Lewis, Saunders -- Lezgins -- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam -- Lithuania -- Lost Counties of Bunyoro -- Macau -- Macedonia -- Macedonian Question -- Macheteros -- Makarios, Archbishop -- Malaysia -- Malta -- Mangope, Lucas -- Maori -- Mapuche -- Mari El -- Martinique -- Matanzima, Kaiser -- Mauritania -- Maya of Guatemala -- Mebyon Kernow -- Meech Lake Accord -- Meskhetian Georgians -- Milosevic, Slobodan -- Moldova -- Mon -- Mongolians -- Montagnards -- Montenegro -- Mordovian Republic -- Moro National Liberation Front -- Moros -- Moskitia -- Mujahidin -- Nagaland -- Nagorno-Karabakh -- Narva and Petserimaa -- Native Americans of Canada -- Native Americans of the United States -- Netherlands Antilles -- Nevis -- New Caledonia -- Newfoundland -- Nigeria -- Nogays -- Nordic Council -- Norfolk Island -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Northern Ireland -- Northern Irish Peace Agreement -- Nunavut -- Ocalan, Abdullah -- Occitania -- Oder-Neisse Line -- Ogaden -- Ogoni -- Ojukwu, Odumegwu -- Okinawa -- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe -- Orkney Islands -- Oromia -- Padania -- Pakistan -- Palestine Liberation Organization -- Palestinian Authority -- Palestinians -- Pan-Africanism -- Pan-Americanism -- Pan-Turkism -- Parti Quebecois -- Partido Nacionalista Vasco -- Pashtunistan -- Pattani Malays -- Penang Secessionist Movement -- Pishevari, Mir Ja'far -- Plaid Cymru -- Plavsic, Biljana -- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- Postapartheid South Africa -- Provisional Sinn Fein -- Puerto Rican Independence Party -- Puerto Rico -- Quebec -- Quebec Partition -- Qwa Qwa -- Republic of Texas -- Reunion -- Romania -- Rugova, Ibrahim -- Rukh -- Russian Federation -- Russians in the Former Soviet Republics -- Rusyns -- Rwanda -- Rwenzururu -- Saami -- Saar -- Sabah -- Sakha -- Salmond, Alex -- Sanjak -- Sanwi Liberation Front -- Sardinia -- Schleswig -- Scotland -- Scottish National Party -- Shan -- Shetland Islands -- Sicily -- Sikkim -- Singapore -- Slavonia -- Slovakia -- Slovenia -- Social Democratic and Labour Party -- Somalia -- Somalis -- Somalis in Kenya -- South Africa -- South Moluccas -- South Ossetia -- South Tirol -- Southern Kuril Islands -- Spain -- Srpska -- Stern Gang -- Sudan -- Sudtiroler Volkspartei -- Swazi -- Taiwan -- Tajikistan -- Taliban -- Talysh -- Tamil Eelam -- Tamil Nadu -- Tangier -- Tatarstan -- Telangana -- Tibet -- Tigray -- Togoland -- Transdniester -- Transkei -- Transylvania -- Trieste -- Tshombe, Moise -- Tuaregs -- Tudjman, Franjo -- Turkish Kurds -- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -- Turkmenistan -- Tuva -- Udmurtia -- Ukraine -- Union Democratique Bretonne -- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- United Kingdom -- United Nations -- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization -- Uyghurs -- Uzbekistan -- Valle d'Aosta -- Vallieres, Pierre -- Vemerana -- Venda -- Vietnamese Reunification -- Voivodina -- Volksunie -- Vologda -- Wales -- Walloon Rally -- Walvis Bay -- Welsh Language Society -- West Irian -- Western Canadian Separatism -- Western Sahara -- White Separatism in the United States -- Wigley, Dafydd -- Yeltsin, Boris -- Yemen -- Yugoslavia -- Zaire -- Zanzibar -- Zapatista National Liberation Army -- Zimbabwe.