Between Democracy and Autocracy: Towards an Understanding of the Nature of Incomplete Secession, the Case of Moldova-Transnistria

Ana Maria Albulescu

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_10

Between Democracy and Autocracy: Towards an Understanding of the Nature of Incomplete Secession, the Case of Moldova-Transnistria

Ana Maria Albulescu

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Defending democracy against its adversaries when the challenges to its statehood have endured for over two decades has placed the Republic of Moldova in a unique context of incomplete secession. With the persistence of parallel claims to authority in the unrecognized state of Transnistria, different processes of electoral legitimisation have taken place in the two entities, often leading to escalation. These are addressed in this essay to reveal the way in which the metropolitan and de facto state have sought to implement distinctive policies towards counter-secession and secession respectively, arguing that this can only be understood if one moves beyond a simple democracy/autocracy dichotomy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries
Editors	Joost Augusteijn, Constant Hijzen, Mark Leon de Vries
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Chapter	10
Pages	237-251
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030201234
ISBN (Print)	9783030201227
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_10
Publication status	Published - 8 Aug 2019

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Name	Palgrave Studies in Political History

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Albulescu, A. M. (2019). Between Democracy and Autocracy: Towards an Understanding of the Nature of Incomplete Secession, the Case of Moldova-Transnistria. In J. Augusteijn, C. Hijzen, & M. L. de Vries (Eds.), Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries (pp. 237-251). (Palgrave Studies in Political History). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_10

Albulescu, Ana Maria. / Between Democracy and Autocracy : Towards an Understanding of the Nature of Incomplete Secession, the Case of Moldova-Transnistria. Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries. editor / Joost Augusteijn ; Constant Hijzen ; Mark Leon de Vries. Springer International Publishing, 2019. pp. 237-251 (Palgrave Studies in Political History).

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Albulescu AM. Between Democracy and Autocracy: Towards an Understanding of the Nature of Incomplete Secession, the Case of Moldova-Transnistria. In Augusteijn J, Hijzen C, de Vries ML, editors, Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries. Springer International Publishing. 2019. p. 237-251. (Palgrave Studies in Political History). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_10

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