A World Elsewhere: Secession, Subsidiarity, and Self-Determination As European Values
There is a strong animus against the idea of secession, which is seen as violating the integrative values of the European Union. This animus is misguided, which this essay demonstrates in two ways: first, that secession should be understood as an act of subsidiarity, and as such is fully consistent...
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| description | There is a strong animus against the idea of secession, which is seen as violating the integrative values of the European Union. This animus is misguided, which this essay demonstrates in two ways: first, that secession should be understood as an act of subsidiarity, and as such is fully consistent with European values; and second, that we have the means for realizing those
values in international law and politics generally by using the language of self-determination – though not the contemporary doctrine, rather a radically democratic form: a right to secession. Beginning with a critique of a prominent attack on Catalan secession, this essay shows the problematic conceptual and moral underpinnings of the animus against secession; it then
demonstrates the ethical and legal relationship between subsidiarity and secession, the usefulness of self-determination as a justificatory framework, the advantages of a radical right to secession, and the moral case for embracing secession as a European value. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f4491e63f67c42d3a2d5369490e7324a2022-12-21T22:48:03ZcatInstitut d'Estudis de l'AutogovernRevista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals1886-26321886-26322016-04-01201623114510.2436/20.8080.01.1A World Elsewhere: Secession, Subsidiarity, and Self-Determination As European ValuesTimothy William Waters0Center for Constitutional Democracy, Indiana University Maurer School of LawThere is a strong animus against the idea of secession, which is seen as violating the integrative values of the European Union. This animus is misguided, which this essay demonstrates in two ways: first, that secession should be understood as an act of subsidiarity, and as such is fully consistent with European values; and second, that we have the means for realizing those values in international law and politics generally by using the language of self-determination – though not the contemporary doctrine, rather a radically democratic form: a right to secession. Beginning with a critique of a prominent attack on Catalan secession, this essay shows the problematic conceptual and moral underpinnings of the animus against secession; it then demonstrates the ethical and legal relationship between subsidiarity and secession, the usefulness of self-determination as a justificatory framework, the advantages of a radical right to secession, and the moral case for embracing secession as a European value.http://presidencia.gencat.cat/web/.content/ambits_actuacio/desenvolupament_autogovern/iea/Publicacions/REAF/REAF-articles/REAF-23-abril-2016/_reaf23_watters_.pdfSecessionSubsidiaritySelf-DeterminationEuropean UnionSpainCataloniaIndependenceIntegrationNationalismEU Law;International Law |
| spellingShingle | Timothy William Waters A World Elsewhere: Secession, Subsidiarity, and Self-Determination As European Values Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals Secession Subsidiarity Self-Determination European Union Spain Catalonia Independence Integration Nationalism EU Law; International Law |
| title | A World Elsewhere: Secession, Subsidiarity, and Self-Determination As European Values |
| title_full | A World Elsewhere: Secession, Subsidiarity, and Self-Determination As European Values |
| title_fullStr | A World Elsewhere: Secession, Subsidiarity, and Self-Determination As European Values |
| title_full_unstemmed | A World Elsewhere: Secession, Subsidiarity, and Self-Determination As European Values |
| title_short | A World Elsewhere: Secession, Subsidiarity, and Self-Determination As European Values |
| title_sort | world elsewhere secession subsidiarity and self determination as european values |
| topic | Secession Subsidiarity Self-Determination European Union Spain Catalonia Independence Integration Nationalism EU Law; International Law |
| url | http://presidencia.gencat.cat/web/.content/ambits_actuacio/desenvolupament_autogovern/iea/Publicacions/REAF/REAF-articles/REAF-23-abril-2016/_reaf23_watters_.pdf |
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