Globalization – Empire Building

Europe

• The potential abounds in Europe and in other places too.

Successful Devolution

• Break up of colonial empires
• Partition of India/Pakistan
• Separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan
• East Timor (at least temporarily)
• Yugoslavia split 5 ways
• U.S.S.R. split into separate republics
• Czechoslovakia divided in two
• Philippine independence from USA
• Finland separated from Sweden & Russia
• United Arab Republic (short lived)
• Eritrea from Ethiopia
• Singapore from Malaysia

Failed attempts

• Biafra (Nigerian civil war)
• Chechnya from Russia (so far)
• Quebec (separation vote failed)
• Puerto Rico (separation vote failed)
• Katanga in Congo right after independence
• Ogodan province of Ethiopia
• USA civil war
• Philippines (so far)
• Sudan (so far)
• Basques in Spain (so far)
• Tamils in Sri Lanka (so far)

Kurdistan

• Perfect example of a stateless nation

• Click on the map to see the video

Countries where the potential is real

• Russia
• Almost every African country
• Yugoslavia
• Italy
• Spain
• France
• Britain
• Brazil
• Mexico
• Indonesia

• China
• India
• Peru
• Colombia
• Cyprus
• Turkey
• Syria
• Iran
• Iraq
• Afghanistan
• New Zealand
• India

Sikhs in India

• What of the wisdom of Gandhi?
• What of Sikh separatism?
• What of Hindu Nationalism?
• How can they coexist?

• Click the picture of Gandhi to see the video