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    The ascriptivist view does not necessarily lead to widesp... — Carmelics
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    The ascriptivist view does not necessarily lead to widespread secession.

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    • 1.The ascriptivist view does not require every nation to exercise its unilateral right to secede.
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    • 2.Were the ascriptivist theory generally accepted, not every group entitled to secede would choose to do so.
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    • 1.Recognizing a general right to secede creates a permissive norm that lowers the threshold for secessionist mobilization across all groups.
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    • 2.Historical evidence from post-1991 Eastern Europe shows that legitimizing national self-determination norms reliably multiplies active secessionist movements.
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    • 3.A theory that structurally entitles hundreds of groups to secede cannot rely on voluntary restraint to prevent widespread fragmentation.
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    • 1.Buchanan argues that ascriptivist theories conflate the existence of a right with the prudential choice not to exercise it, making the restraint empirically fragile.
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    • 2.Once a unilateral right is institutionally recognized, strategic actors within entitled groups face strong incentives to exploit it regardless of collective preference for unity.
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    However, those who advocate for the ascriptivist view reply that it does not require every nation (or distinct people) to exercise its unilateral right to secede and have conjectured that were their theory generally accepted not every group upon which it confers this entitlement would choose to secede. Nevertheless, given the historical record of ethno-nationalist conflict, the worry remains that institutionalizing the principle that every nation is entitled to its own state would exacerbate eth
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