De secessione. The Hideouts of The Catalan Way

Keywords: theories of secession, self-determination right, plebiscitary doctrines, nationalist doctrines, legitimacy of secession.
Agencies: Project RETOS, Plan Nacional, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, ‘Constitucionalismo global y aplicación del Derecho, ’ DER2016-80471-C2-1-R and AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya Projectes 2017

Abstract

In the best literature on unilateral secession, for instance, Buchanan (2017), it is usual to distinguish between remedial theories, which require a just cause for conceding a right to secession for the inhabitants of a territory, part of a State; and primary theories, plebiscitary theories and adscriptivist or nationalist theories. In accordance to this view, only the first are capable of justifying a unilateral right to secession. Well then, in this paper, an argument is elaborated in order to show that the remedial strategy is not applicable to Catalonia and, also to show that even if primary theories are applicable to the case of Catalonia —the plebiscitary strategy has given rise to the so-called right to decide—, they are not able to justify a unilateral right to secession.

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Josep Joan Moreso, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Law Departament, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

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Published
2021-01-30
How to Cite
Moreso J. J. (2021). De secessione. The Hideouts of The Catalan Way. Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy, 10(18), 47-65. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/LTDL/article/view/74910