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Secession and Statehood Lessons from Spain and Catalonia
272 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyses the complex phenomenon of secession as a form of creation of States from the perspective of international law. As opposed to other approaches based on the analysis of the political foundation of the secessionist processes or on the construction of a legal basis that justifies the existing practice, the aim is to provide an explanation of secession as a practice covered neither... Read more
1. Secessionist processes: concept, classification and rationale. Political bases of catalan secessionism 2. The impossible basis of secession in the right of self-determination of peoples designed by the United Nations. Alleged legal bases of catalan secessionism 3. State creation and accession to statehood in international law. First lesson to bear in mind in secessionist attempts such as Catalonia’s 4. The role of recognition in accession to statehood and the obligation not to recognise a secessionist entity as a State. Second lesson for Catalonia and other secessionist entities
Biography
Ana Gemma López Martín is Professor of Public International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
José Antonio Perea Unceta is Professor of Public International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
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