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Cases of secession, or a process of withdrawal of a territory and its population from an existing state and the creation of a new state in that territory (Pavković with Radan 2007: 1), nearly always elicit some type of outside involvement. This is because such withdrawal is organically linked to the external environment of the existing or host state. While secession originates within the domestic jurisdiction of the host state, its goal is to establish a new sovereign, independent state not only vis-à-vis the host state but also vis-à-vis other states. A secessionist entity cannot hope to be treated as a state internationally without a prior determination by external, third party states that it is in fact a new sovereign, independent entity as opposed to a continuing part of the host state. Thus, at minimum, an attempt at secession requires third party states to make judgments with respect to the status of the secessionist entity. Even when …