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Bulgarian Declares Mass of Floating Pumice off New Zealand “Principality of...
It’s being reported this week that a 59-year-old businessman from Bulgaria has declared what he hopes will be the world’s newest independent country: the Principality of New Atlantis (Нова Атлантида)....
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Micronations Sign “Alcatraz Accords” Environmental Treaty at Central Italy...
(photo by the author)Though “Springtime of Nations” is in many ways a news blog, rarely do I present first-person reportage on these pages. Earlier this month, however, I was an invited speaker at the...
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Ukrainian “Right Sector” Fascists Light Transcarpathian Fuse
Right Sector ultranationalists in Lviv this weekBack in early 2014, during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, I predicted on this blog that Crimea would be the next part of the post-Soviet “near abroad” to...
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Uganda Fragmenting: Kooki Chieftainship Secedes from Buganda Kingdom
A small, previously relatively unknown polity in south-central Uganda, the Kooki chieftainship, quietly declared independence a couple weeks ago, the culmination of long-simmering conflict with its...
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“Emperor” of Black-Nationalist “Washitaw Nation” Claims Individual...
(from The Trentonian)A man claiming to be the newly crowned emperor of a Black-nationalist group called the Washitaw Nationargued before a judge in Trenton, New Jersey, on September 9th that a...
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Previously All-Talk White-Supremacist “League of the South” Now Forming...
Photo from the S.P.L.C.The Southern Poverty Law Center (S.P.L.C.), an Alabama-based non-profit organization which monitors hate groups, announced this week that it has learned that the League of the...
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Special Announcement
Readers of the Springtime of Nations blog know that the next few weeks are a crucial time for our topic, that of ethnonationalism and new-state movements. A referendum in Scotland the day after...
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What Is and Isn’t at Stake in Scotland: Cameron’s Warnings vs. What Would...
In his last-ditch efforts to prevent Scotland from voting “yes” on independence tomorrow (September 18th), the United Kingdom’s prime minister, David Cameron, has shifted away from the tones of...
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Malawians Debate Hiving Off North of Already-Tiny Country to Form “Nyika...
The number of African countries which do not have an active separatist movement has shrunk by one more, as the Republic of Malawi, a remarkably slender sliver of land wedged between Mozambique and...
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Miamians, Fed Up with GOP Indifference to Rising Seas, Propose “State of...
The contested United States presidential election in 2000 between Al Gore and George W. Bush made Florida famous not only for ballot-box dysfunction but also for its division on a razor’s edge between...
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Ex–Reagan Aide Wants 3 Southern States to Secede as Republic Named for the...
In my most recent blog post, I discussed proposals by civic leaders in South Miami, Florida, that the Sunshine State divide in two. But this week Douglas MacKinnon, a former White House aide, has been...
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“Lower Volga People’s Republic”—Internet Prank, or a New Autonomist Headache...
Kremlin authorities are still baffled by an apparent Internet prank on October 7th which declared Astrakhan Oblast was declaring independence from the Russian Federation as the “Lower Volga People’s...
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Strange Bedfellows: “Republic of Venice” Libertarians Side with Putin in...
Strange things are happening in Europe, as the West’s political landscape shifts in the wake of the war in Ukraine. In the latest head-scratcher, a prominent academic historian and separatist...
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Corruption Scandal Set to Put Separatists in Charge of Greenland; Inuit...
An unexpected chain of events over the past several weeks has put independence for the Danish possession of Greenland back on the table and may determine the future of energy politics in the Arctic,...
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Boko Haram’s Nascent State in Nigeria Takes Shape, with Vast Parts of Borno,...
As reported in August in this blog, Boko Haram, the extremist Islamist terrorist group in Nigeria which has been waging a lethal war against Christian (and other) civilians for years, took a page from...
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Game-Changing Votes in Moldova, Taiwan, Greenland; Ethnic Violence in...
EUROPEPro-West Party Wins in Moldova; Kremlin Sends “Humanitarian” Convoy to Transnistria. In the formerly-Soviet Republic of Moldova, parliamentary elections on November 30th handed a victory to...
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Beijing Folds Up Umbrella Revolution; Papua Army Massacre; a Shia–Sunni...
Hong Kong’s streets have been cleared, but no one is conceding defeat (see below under “Asia”)EUROPEKosovo Names New Government; Mustafa of L.D.K. to be Premier. After a six-month stalement, the...
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Why Does Abkhazia Get to Host the 2016 “World Cup” for Aspirant Nations?
We are used to international geopolitics inserting itself into the world of association football (that’s “soccer” to Americans). World powers sometimes use the game as a proxy war for their own...
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Fiji Junta Rounds Up Islamophobes Bent on Separate Christian State on Viti Levu
The military strongman who runs the Republic of Fiji is continuing to crack down this month on what his government and military call a separatist insurrection on Viti Levu, the Pacific nation’s largest...
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Somalia’s New Autonomous Regions Hit Lethal Snags on Road to Federalism
The barely functioning Federal Somali Government (F.S.G.) is pushing forward this fall to replace its original system of small administrative regions with large autonomous “regional states,” officially...
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