Territorial Politics and Secession

This book offers a broad perspective of revolutionary territorial politics by putting secession in the context of other forms of revolutionary territorial politics. This allows for a more complex and profound account of secession and offers the reader a conceptual approach to politics of revolutionary discontent with territorial status quo. Second, the book provides a multidiscoursive approach which combines the efforts of constitutional and comparative constitutional law scholars with international lawyers, EU lawyers and specialists in international relations. This allows for multifaceted and, in that regard, more adequate, balanced and rich analysis of secession and the other forms of revolutionary territorial politics.

Provides a theoretical conceptualization of revolutionary territorial politics as a composite phenomenon Offers a multidiscoursive approach combining knowledge from constitutional, international and EU law as well as from the field of international relations Combines different analytical approaches with the predominance of the 'law in context' and socio-legal approaches

Autorentext

Dr. Martin Belov is Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Sofia 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Faculty of Law. He is vice dean of the same faculty. Martin Belov is also adjunct professor at the University Roma Tre (Rome, Italy) and visiting professor in many European universities.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Territoriality and Territorial Politics in Constitutional Law.- 3. Secession in Law: a Revolutionary or a Conservative Concept?.- 4. Revolution and devolution in contemporary European territoriality political orders and moral borders in Exit-ing.- 5. Territorial Disputes and State Sovereignty: International Law and Politics.- 6. Humanitarian intervention and its impact on state sovereignty and human rights.- 7. Framing revolutions through international law? Self-determination referendums beyond post-colonial situations.- 8. Federalism and Secession.- 9. Brexit and the secessionist challenges in the UK.- 10. Territorial Politics of Regionalism in Italy between Integration and Disintegration.- 11. The limits of ambiguity: Success and Failure of the Spanish Constitutional Model of Territorial Politics.- 12. The Catalan Secessionists' Challenge: Reconciling their Quest for Independence and Constitution.- 13. Territorial Politics and Sub-National Constitutionalism.Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina.- 14. Internal secession: The Ethiopian experience in comparative perspective.

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