Unilateral non-colonial secession and internal self-determination: a right of newly seceded peoples to democracy?

Title: Unilateral non-colonial secession and internal self-determination: a right of newly seceded peoples to democracy?
Creator: Anderson, Glen
Relation: Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law Vol. 34, Issue 1, p. 1-64
Relation: http://arizonajournal.org/archive/vol-34-no-1/
Publisher: University of Arizona
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: Since the political unit known as the “state” first arose in Westphalian Europe, the world’s geopolitical map has undergone a process of steady evolution. Indicative of this fact is that in the 20th and early 21st centuries, various states have been directly and indirectly created by unilateral non-colonial (UNC) secession, such as Bangladesh (Pakistan), Eritrea (Ethiopia), Bosnia- Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo (Yugoslavia), and South Sudan (Sudan). Failed UNC secessions, such as Katanga (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Biafra (Nigeria), the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus), Chechnya (Russian Federation), Abkhazia (Georgia), South Ossetia (Georgia), Transnistria (Moldova), and Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan), similarly attest to the potential geopolitical impact of this method of state creation.
Subject: democracy; rights; self-determination; non-colonial
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1348973
Identifier: uon:30298
Identifier: ISSN:0743-6963
Language: eng
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