Morality and Legality of Secession. A Theory of National Self-Determination

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Bossacoma Busquets, Pau
Tipo de recurso: libro
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/150593
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10609/150593
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26589-2
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave: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
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Sumario: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.