1st Edition
Dividing the State Legitimacy, Secession and the Doctrine of Oppression
By Paul Groarke
Copyright 2004
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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The events of recent history affirm the urgent need for a satisfactory definition of the conditions under which a minority within a state has the legal right to secede. Although the concept of sovereignty has been progressively weakened, it still presents the major theoretical difficulty in this area. There is currently no source of international law that would give a legal body like a court the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Legitimacy; The legal concept of legitimacy; The historical problem of sovereignty; Solving the historical problem; Existing theories of secession; Institutional and legal issues; Philosophical framework; A legal theory of secession; Practice issues; Conclusion: institutional reform; Select Bibliography; Index.
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Paul Groarke
