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Title: | Morality and Legality of Secession. A Theory of National Self-Determination |
Author: | Bossacoma Busquets, Pau |
Citation: | Bossacoma Busquets, P. [Pau] (2019). Morality and Legality of Secession: A Theory of National Self-Determination. Springer Verlag. |
Abstract: | 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. |
Keywords: | secession and political philosophy secession and international law secession and constitutional law moral theory of secession self-determination Catalonia Scotland Quebec liberal-democratic context multinational contract minority nations international legal right international recognition multinational integration multinational stability unilateral secession |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26589-2 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/book |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |
Issue Date: | 27-Nov-2020 |
Appears in Collections: | Parts of books or chapters of books |
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