There are at least three times as many nations as states in the world today. This book
addresses some of the special challenges that arise when two or more national communities …

32 Philosophy G Public Affairs independently of any questions of institutional morality, and
in particular apart from any consideration of international legal institutions and their …

There are numerous regions where movements for sovereignty or independence are seen
as serious alternatives to the status quo. Quebec, Scotland, Catalonia, and Flanders have …

This book proposes a novel theory of self-determination; the Rule of the Great Powers. This
book argues that traditional legal norms on self-determination have failed to explain and …

Until fairly recently, secession has been a neglected topic among philosophers. Two factors
may explain why philosophers have now begun to turn their attention to secession. First, in …

In this paper, the author sketches a relational approach that regards secession as the
political upgrading of a self-governing territory within a multilevel constellation of polities …

Este artículo se propone analizar la constitucionalización de un procedimiento de secesión
como vía para conciliar la funcionalidad del respeto a la legalidad constitucional y al …

Since the formation of the UN in 1945 the international community has witnessed a number
of violent self-determination conflicts such as the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Chechnya …

The article presents a brief descriptive overview and critical assessment of just-cause
theories and offers arguments why the theories' answer to the normative question of …

Following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, smaller, independent,
ethnically-based political entities emerged. In the years since, academics from various …