Desmet, Klaus; Le Breton, Michel; Ortuño Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2006
determining the likelihood of secession and unification. We provide empirical support for choosing genetic distances as a proxy of … cultural heterogeneity. By using data on genetic distances, we examine the stability of the current map of Europe and identify … the regions prone to secession and the countries that are more likely to merge. Our framework is further applied to …