What is it about?
Recent years have seen increases in demands for secession via referenda. Catalonia, Kurdistan, Quebec, Scotland, South Sudan and other polities have seen this process as a means of resolving sovereignty disputes. There is however, considerable academic, political and legal argument against secession and this study will explore these objections and shall ask if secession is an automatic right. It shall also investigate such referenda, comparing how they are convoked and ratified, and the legal and political aftermath once they have been held – if indeed they have been permitted.
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Why is it important?
In a changing world polities with independence aspirations via secession have various legal, political and academic considerations to keep in mind.
Perspectives
Living, studying and teaching in Barcelona is the catalyst for this piece. Consider it a road map for secession - and it is not easy.
Mr. Lorne Walker-Nolan
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Political Severance – Secession Referenda, Their Convocation and Ratification: A Comparative Study, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, July 2018, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15718115-02504004.
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