ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession
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- Nejat Hussein, Yonatan T. Fessha The Ethiopian Constitution uniquely elevates the demand for internal secession to the status of a constitutional right. This right, enshrined in Article 47 of ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 2. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts
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- Nikos Skoutaris Scholars have often either framed federalism as an alternative to secession (Buchanan 1995) or suggested that secession is incompatible with the federal principle (Jellinek 1905). ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 3. The Role of the European Union in Secessionist Conflicts
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- Secession in a EU context analysed from a multilevel governance unravels that there is in fact room EU interference in secessionist conflicts. Nevertheless, a balance should be struck between such commitment ...
- Created on 20 September 2021
- 4. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order
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- ... the fundamentals of Canadian constitutional democracy and the rule of law. A former secessionist government in Quebec had used the sovereignty concept to claim a right to unilaterally declare independence ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 5. Independence in the European Union
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- Francisco Pereira Coutinho The dream of “independence in Europe” has been driving the very successful political action of nationalist movements in substate regions such as Catalonia, Flanders, ...
- Created on 21 March 2024
- 6. Equalization and territorial integration in Canada: a nation building instrument?
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- The accommodation of territorial diversity is one of the biggest challenges that modern societies must face nowadays, especially in a context where secessionist movements are on the rise. Multilevel ...
- Created on 25 November 2022