Eve Hepburn is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, and is an expert in comparative nationalist movements. Her recent books include ‘New Challenges for Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties’ (2011, Routledge) and ‘Independence Movements in Subnational Island Jurisdictions’ (2013, edited with Godfrey Baldacchino, Routledge).