Ruairi Maguire
Biographic Data
| ID | 6737410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruairi Maguire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruairi |
| FAMILY NAME | Maguire |
| SIGNATURE | MAGUIRE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7840-8933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Territorial Rights and Unilateral Secession
Statist (or functionalist) theories of territorial rights have often been thought to rule out the permissibility of unilateral secession from a legitimate, non-usurping state—if states have rights over their territory, the thought goes, then it is impermissible to unilaterally take any portion of this territory. In this article, I argue that the most plausible versions of statist theories of territorial rights do not have the theoretical resource…
Treason, secession and wars of independence
Are (unilateral) secessionists traitors? In this paper, I first set out an account of treason that is, I argue, superior to competing accounts. This account is the disjunctive account, and it holds that someone is a traitor if he or she participates in activities that aim to subject the political community to which they belong to ongoing serious violations of self-determination, or which aim to commit widespread, systematic violations of the basi…
Self-Determination and the Value of Nationality
In this article, I argue that because co-nationals have an intrinsically valuable relationship, they have a presumptive claim against interference in their collective affairs. My argument from the claim that co-nationals have an intrinsically valuable relationship to the presumptive claim against interference is threefold, and I set it out in section “From Intrinsic Value to Self-Determination”: firstly, parties to an intrinsically valuable relat…
Self-Determination and Secession
In this paper, I consider the objection that unilateral secession by a national group (e.g., the Scots) from a legitimate, nonusurping state would wrong minority nationalities within the seceding territory. I show first that most proponents of this objection assume that the ground of the right to national self-determination is the protection of the group’s culture. I show that there are alternative justifications available. I then set out a versi…
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Self-Determination and the Value of Nationality
In this article, I argue that because co-nationals have an intrinsically valuable relationship, they have a presumptive claim against interference in their collective affairs. My argument from the claim that co-nationals have an intrinsically valuable relationship to the presumptive claim against interference is threefold, and I set it out in section “From Intrinsic Value to Self-Determination”: firstly, parties to an intrinsically valuable relat…
Self-Determination and Secession
In this paper, I consider the objection that unilateral secession by a national group (e.g., the Scots) from a legitimate, nonusurping state would wrong minority nationalities within the seceding territory. I show first that most proponents of this objection assume that the ground of the right to national self-determination is the protection of the group’s culture. I show that there are alternative justifications available. I then set out a versi…
Treason, secession and wars of independence
Are (unilateral) secessionists traitors? In this paper, I first set out an account of treason that is, I argue, superior to competing accounts. This account is the disjunctive account, and it holds that someone is a traitor if he or she participates in activities that aim to subject the political community to which they belong to ongoing serious violations of self-determination, or which aim to commit widespread, systematic violations of the basi…
Territorial Rights and Unilateral Secession
Statist (or functionalist) theories of territorial rights have often been thought to rule out the permissibility of unilateral secession from a legitimate, non-usurping state—if states have rights over their territory, the thought goes, then it is impermissible to unilaterally take any portion of this territory. In this article, I argue that the most plausible versions of statist theories of territorial rights do not have the theoretical resource…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Secession (3 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political Systems and Governance (2 works) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (2 works) · Alienation (1 works)