Federalism and Secession

The controversial issue of secession has received little attention from experts of federalism. The best federal studies either evade it or dismiss it in a few lines. However, this issue has been present throughout the history of federations. This book is one of the first to explore the complex relationship between federalism and secession.

Auteur

Jorge Cagiao y Conde is a researcher and lecturer (with HDR qualification) in the Department of law and languages at the University of Tours. His book Micronacionalismos. No seremos todos nacionalistas? ("Micronationalisms-are we not all nationalists?") was published in 2018. Alain-G. Gagnon is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Université du Québec à Montréal, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Québec and Canadian Studies. He is also the director of the new Centre d'analyse politique - Constitution et Fédéralisme (CAPCF: https://capcf.uqam.ca).

Contenu

Introduction - Federalism(s) and secession: from constitutional theory to practice - Secession from a federation: a plea for an autonomous concept of federative secession - Are federalism and secession really incompatible? - From referendum to secession - Québec's self-determination process and its lessons - Compromise or dislocation: federal alternatives to secessionist and centralizing temptations