Independence Movements and Their Aftermath: Self-Determination and the Struggle for Success (CSIS Reports)

This volume explores the varied outcomes that self-determination movements around the world have achieved, and in particular seeks to understand what factors promote better outcomes and what factors promote worse ones, and evaluates the quality of societies after independence.

Jon B. Alterman is a senior vice president, holds the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and is director of the Middle East Program at CSIS. Will Todman is an associate fellow in the CSIS Middle East Program and a fellow at the Syria Studies Centre at St. Andrews University.