National Self Determination And Secession

Author : Margaret Moore
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522161

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National Self-Determination and Secession by Margaret Moore Pdf

In recent years, numerous multi-national states have disintegrated along national lines, and today, many more, in both the first and the third worlds, continue to witness bitter secessionist struggles. The proliferation of national conflicts and secessionist movements has given rise to many important questions which urgently need to be addressed. When is seccession justified? What is a people and what gives them a right to secede? Is national determination consistent with liberal and democratic principles? Or is it a dangerous doctrine? In the years following 1991, when Allen Buchanan published Secession, a number of competing theories of the ethics of secession have been put forward. This pathbreaking study, by a host of leading figures in the field, brings together for the first time a series of original essays on these theories. Offering fresh insight into debates about contested territory, the problem of minorities, and the place of secession in resolving national conflicts, this volume provides a much-needed philosophical discussion of the normative implications of nationalism.

Author : Margaret Moore (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198293842

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National Self-determination and Secession by Margaret Moore (Ph. D.) Pdf

Recently, numerous multi-national states have disintegrated along national lines, and today many more continue to witness bitter secessionist struggles. This study brings together a series of essays on the ethics of secession.

Author : Alfred Cobban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Self-determination, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005354779

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The Nation State and National Self-determination by Alfred Cobban Pdf

Author : Pau Bossacoma Busquets
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030265892

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Morality and Legality of Secession by Pau Bossacoma Busquets Pdf

This book explores secession from three normative disciplines: political philosophy, international law and constitutional law. The author first develops a moral theory of secession based on a hypothetical multinational contract. Under this contract theory, injustices do not determine the existence of a right to secede, but the requirements to exercise it. The book’s second part then argues that international law is more inclined to accept and advance a remedial right approach to secession. Therefore, justice as multinational fairness is to be fully institutionalized under the constitutional law of liberal democracies. The final part proposes constitutionalizing a qualified right to secede with the aim of fostering recognition and accommodation of national pluralism as well as cooperation and compromise between majority and minority nations.

Author : Patricia Carley,United States Institute of Peace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Boundary disputes
ISBN : UOM:39015041338925

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Self-determination by Patricia Carley,United States Institute of Peace Pdf

Author : Christian Walter,Antje von Ungern-Sternberg,Kavus Abushov
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191006913

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Self-Determination and Secession in International Law by Christian Walter,Antje von Ungern-Sternberg,Kavus Abushov Pdf

Peoples and minorities in many parts of the world assert a right to self-determination, autonomy, and even secession from a state, which naturally conflicts with that state's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The right of a people to self-determination and secession has existed as a concept within international law since the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, but the exact definition of these concepts, and the conditions required for their application, remain unclear. The Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice concerning the Declaration of Independency of Kosovo (2010), which held that the Kosovo declaration of independence was not in violation of international law, has only led to further questions. This book takes four conflicts in the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a starting point for examining the current state of the law of self-determination and secession. Four entities, Transnistria (Moldova), South Ossetia, Abkhazia (both Georgia), and Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan), claim to be entitled not only to self-determination but also to secession from their mother state. For this entitlement they rely on historic affiliations, and on charges of discrimination and massive human rights violations committed by their mother state. This book sets out its analysis of these critical issue in three parts, providing a detailed understanding of the principles of international law on which they rely: The first part sets out the contours and meaning of self-determination and secession, including an overall assessment of secession within the Commonwealth of Independent States. The second section provides case studies investigating the events in Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Nagorno-Karabach in greater detail. The third and final section extends the scope of the examination, providing a comparative analysis of similar conflicts involving questions of self-determination and secession in Kosovo, Western Sahara, and Eritrea.

Author : Percy B. Lehning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134693672

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Theories of Secession by Percy B. Lehning Pdf

Theories of Secession presents a systematic analysis of the rise of secessionist movements in global politics. Bringing together a collection of experts in the field, it provides a timely forum for debate in this contentious area of study.

Author : Igor Primoratz,Aleksander Pavkovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351156066

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Identity, Self-Determination and Secession by Igor Primoratz,Aleksander Pavkovic Pdf

Engaging with a range of interconnected and highly topical issues of identity, self-determination and secession, this book examines the import and implications of 'identity claims', and looks into 'identity politics' motivated by such claims, which is becoming ever more salient in democratic and culturally and ethnically heterogeneous states. It discusses nationalism as an important component of identity of individuals and groups, and a position that generates claims of self-determination and secession on the part of ethnic and cultural groups. It also examines patriotism, which until recently seemed to be on the wane, but has undergone a dramatic revival after the terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September 2001 and the start of a global 'war on terror'. The book offers a typology of facets of patriotism, an assessment of its moral standing, and a critique of the beliefs about the patria it characteristically involves. Also discussed are topics such as political liberalism vs. 'identity liberalism', the ways a liberal society should treat nonliberal communities within it, the role of heritage and remembrance in national identity, the status of national minorities as an issue of equality, arrangements concerning indigenous peoples and intrastate autonomy as an alternative to secession, and whether secession can be a legal act. The book includes contributions by prominent philosophers and political and legal theorists from Australia, Canada, Israel, and the United States.

Author : Alfred Cobban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Self-determination, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025630505

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National Self-determination by Alfred Cobban Pdf

Author : Christian Tomuschat
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-09-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 0792323513

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Modern law and self-determination by Christian Tomuschat Pdf

"Modern Law of Self-Determination" examines the significance of the right to self-determination in the new world order. For decades, self-determination was seen as a right of colonial peoples. Now the decolonization process has come to an end, its scope and meaning need to be re-examined. Increasingly, the ethnic groups within established nation States claim some separate political status. In extreme cases of persecution of an ethnic group by a ruling majority, secession may provide the only viable remedy to resolve the conflict. However, international law cannot promote a general Balkanization' of the globe. The legitimate interests of all ethnic groups should be accommodated within the framework of existing States. Self-determination, which today is predominantly understood as implying a right to independent statehood, may have to be re-interpreted as conferring no more than a right to autonomy or federal statehood. Such a conception is in line with a modern tendency that highlights the necessary internal dimension of self-determination. "Modern Law of Self-Determination" is based on papers delivered at a conference in Bonn in August 1992 which have been updated and reviewed by the authors in light of the discussions following their presentation.

Author : Christopher Heath Wellman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521849152

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A Theory of Secession by Christopher Heath Wellman Pdf

This 2005 book presents an argument for the right of groups to secede, offering a thorough and unapologetic defense.

Author : David R. Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015017680581

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Nationalism, Self-determination and the Québec Question by David R. Cameron Pdf

Author : Milena Sterio
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781785361227

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Secession in International Law by Milena Sterio Pdf

Secession in International Law argues that the effective development of criteria on secession is a necessity in today’s world, because secessionist struggles can be analyzed through the legal lens only if we have specific legal rules to apply. Without legal rules, secessionist struggles are dominated by politics and sui generis approaches, which validate secessionist attempts based on geo-politics and regional states’ self-interest, as opposed to the law. By using a truly comparative approach, Milena Sterio has developed a normative international law framework on secession, which focuses on several factors to assess the legitimacy of a separatist quest.

Author : Costas Laoutides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317057451

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Self-Determination and Collective Responsibility in the Secessionist Struggle by Costas Laoutides Pdf

The often violent emergence of new independent states following the end of the Cold War generated discussion about the normative grounds of territorial separatism. A number of opposing approaches surfaced debating whether and under which circumstances there is a right for a community to secede from its host country. Overwhelmingly, these studies placed emphasis on the right to secession and neglected the moral stance of secessionist movements as agents in international relations. In this book Costas Laoutides explores the collective moral agency involved in secessionist struggles offering a theoretical model for the collective responsibility of secessionist groups. Case-studies on the Kurds and the people of Moldova-Transdniestria illustrate the author’s theoretical arguments as he seeks to establish how, although the principle of self-determination was envisaged as a means of gradually bestowing political power upon the people, it never managed to realize its full potential because it was interpreted strictly within a framework of exclusionary politics of identity.

Author : Redie Bereketeab
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317649687

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Self-Determination and Secession in Africa by Redie Bereketeab Pdf

This book provides a unique comparative study of the major secessionist and self-determination movements in post-colonial Africa, examining theory, international law, charters of the United Nations, and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)/African Union’s (AU) stance on the issue. The book explores whether self-determination and secessionism lead to peace, stability, development and democratisation in conflict-ridden societies, particularly looking at the outcomes in Eritrea and South Sudan. The book covers all the major attempts at self-determination and secession on the continent, extensively analysing the geo-political, economic, security and ideological factors that determine the outcome of the quest for self-determination and secession. It reveals the lack of inherent clarity in international law, social science theories, OAU/AU Charter, UN Charters and international conventions concerning the topic. This is a major contribution to the field and highly relevant for researchers and postgraduate students in African Studies, Development Studies, African Politics and History, and Anthropology.