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    It is not the case that The ascriptivist view does not necessarily lead to widespread secession.

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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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    • 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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