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Territorial Politics and Secession

Constitutional and International Law Dimensions

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Martin Belov

    1. University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Sofia, Bulgaria

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Federalism and Internal Conflicts (FEINCO)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Martin Belov
    Pages 1-12

  3. Territoriality and Territorial Politics in Constitutional and International Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Territory, Territoriality and Territorial Politics as Public Law Concepts

      • Martin Belov
      Pages 15-43

    3. Secession in Law: A Revolutionary or a Conservative Concept?

      • Costanza Margiotta
      Pages 45-57

    4. Revolution and Devolution in Contemporary European Territoriality: Political Orders and Moral Borders in Exit-ing

      • Mira Kaneva
      Pages 59-77

  4. Territorial Politics and Sovereignty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Territorial Disputes and State Sovereignty Reconciled

      • Jorge E. Núñez
      Pages 81-102

    3. Humanitarian Intervention and Its Impact on State Sovereignty and Human Rights

      • Arenca Trashani
      Pages 103-125

  5. The Procedural Discourse of Territorial Politics of Independence and Secession: Democracy and Rule of Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Territorial Politics Through International Law? Independence Referendums Beyond Post-Colonial Situations

      • Emanuel Castellarin
      Pages 129-149

    3. Exit-Related Conditionality, Federalism, and Secession

      • Giuseppe Martinico
      Pages 151-161

  6. Territorial Politics Between Integration and Disintegration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Between Two Unions: Brexit and the Secessionist Challenges in the UK

      • Nikos Skoutaris
      Pages 165-190

    3. Territorial Politics of Regionalism in Italy Between Integration and Disintegration

      • Sabrina Ragone
      Pages 191-213

    4. The Catalan Secessionists’ Challenge: Reconciling Their Quest for Independence and Constitutionalism

      • Joan Solanes Mullor
      Pages 215-241

  7. Territorial Politics of Sub-national Ethnocentric Constitutionalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Ethno-Territorial Politics and Sub-national Constitutionalism: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina

      • Maja Sahadžić
      Pages 245-263

    3. The Law and Politics of Internal Secession: The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective

      • Yonatan T. Fessha, Zemelak A. Ayele
      Pages 265-287

    4. Paradise Lost: Impacts of Ethnic Nationalism in Sri Lanka and the Tamil Secessionist Movement

      • Punsara Amarasinghe
      Pages 289-308
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Martin Belov

About the editor

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.

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