Kurdistan and Catalonia as new states? Caught between sovereignty and peoples’ right to self-determination
Kurdistan and Catalonia as new states? Caught between sovereignty and peoples’ right to self-determination
Author(s): Tamás Lattmann
Subject(s): International Law, Electoral systems, Politics and law
Published by: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů
Keywords: Separatism; nation-state; ethnic independence;
Summary/Abstract: During recent weeks, two major referenda have taken place with serious ambition: to create new states by secession, one in Catalonia in Spain, one in the Kurdish territory in Iraq. The current analysis sheds light to the international legal background of similar situations and their possible consequence under the current legal-political circumstances.
Series: IIR - INTERNATIONAL LAW REFLECTIONS
- Page Count: 4
- Publication Year: 2017
- Language: English
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