Laura Robson is a historian and professor at Yale University. Her work focuses on the modern history of the Middle East and on global histories of displacement.
Laura Robson is a historian and professor at Yale University. Her work focuses on the modern history of the Middle East and on global histories of displacement.
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In international relations, a partition is a division of a previously unified territory into two or more parts.
Brendan O'Leary distinguishes partition, a change of political borders cutting through at least one territory considered a homeland by some community, from secession, which takes place within existing recognized political units. For Arie Dubnov and Laura Robson, partition is the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states.