Self‐Determination and Secession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23744906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allen Buchanan (0000-0001-8026-2446, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 205-247 |
| Publication date | 2003-08-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Justice, legitimacy, and self-determination (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/0198295359.003.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W2504435403 |
| ISBN | 9780198295358 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
Begins the task of applying the justice‐based conception of political legitimacy developed in Part Two of the book to the practically urgent and theoretically vexing issues of secession and self‐determination. Two main theses are advanced. The first is that international law should recognize a remedial right to secede but not a general right of self‐determination that includes the right to secede for all peoples or nations; from the standpoint of international law, the unilateral right to secede—the right to secede without consent or constitutional authorization—should be understood as a remedial right only, a last‐resort response to serious injustices (the Remedial Right Only Theory). The second thesis advanced is that international legal order should encourage alternatives to secession, in particular by working for greater compliance with existing international human rights norms prohibiting ethno‐national and religious discrimination and, in some cases, by supporting intrastate autonomy regimes, i.e. arrangements for self‐government short of full sovereignty. The six sections of the chapter are: I. Introduction; II. A Justice‐Based Theory of Secession; III. Theories of Secession; IV. Recognition and the Right to Secede; V. Secession and Distributive Justice; and VI. Conclusions.
Autonomy · Economic Justice · International court · International law · Jurisdiction · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Public international law · Secession · Self-determination · Sociology · Sovereignty · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
Immigration and self-determination
A Liberalism of Conscience
A Deliberative Approach to Conflicts of Culture
Beyond exit rights
On exit
Sexual orientation, exit and refuge
A deliberative approach to conflicts of culture
Minorities within Minorities
Internal minorities and indigenous self-determination
Autonomy, association and pluralism
Can intra-group equality co-exist with cultural diversity? Re-examining multicultural frameworks of accommodation
Dilemmas of gender and culture
Identity and liberal politics
Democracy, nationalism and (lack of) sovereignty
| Citations per year | 0.61 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2014 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |