CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Arkew, Enyew Deresse |
|---|---|
| Title | The Right To Unilateral Secession: A Comparative Study On Canada, Ethiopia, And Papua New Guinee/Bougainvillea |
| Summary | After world war II several new states have been created as a result of secession. For instance, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Kosovo, South Sudan, Serbia, and so on. Although, secession movements exist today in several countries like Zanzibar-Tanzania, Somaliland-Somalia, Casamance-Senegal, Catalonia-Spain, Kurdistan-Iraq. So, secessionist movements still exist all around the globe, especially in multinational states. The concept of secession intends to have both unilateral and consensual secessions. So, after briefly discussing to what extent unilateral and consensual secession distinguished, it scrutinized more specifically about the unilateral right of secession. Thus, the paper identified and discussed how unilateral right (claim) of secession operates under a domestic legal framework, and it critically compared the effect of recognition or non/recognition of secession under domestic laws. Therefore, this paper provided a comparative overview concerning the legal right to secession, the debates over domestication of secession, and to what extent domestic laws resolve secession within the general framework of rule of law. |
| Supervisor | Prof. Markus Bockenforde |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/arkew_enyew-deresse.pdf |
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