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Political secession: Political secession is the withdrawal of a group from a larger political entity, such as a country, to form their own independent state or party. This can happen for various reasons, including cultural differences, historical grievances, or a perceived lack of representation. Whether it's legal or peaceful depends on the existing laws and the actions of both parties. See also Political parties, Nations, State, Power, International relations, Conflicts, Political orientation.
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Political Secession/Political Philosophy/Kukathas: Secession has attracted considerable attention
from political theorists since Beran(1,2) revived the issue, not least because of its pertinence whenever the question of nationality is raised. The most influential work is Allen Buchanan's Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce (1991)(3), which explicitly rejected consent as a sufficient condition for the justification of secession, and suggested that, while groups could have the right to secede, this was very much a limited right. In the literature that has developed in the debates that followed Buchanan's original contribution, three main categories of theories of secession have emerged:
1) just-cause theories (Buchanan, 1991(3); 1997(4); Norman, 1998(5)),
2) choice theories (Philpott, 1995(6); 1998(7)), and
3) nationalist theories (Raz and Margalit, 1990(8); Nielsen, 1998(9)).
Of the three, only just-cause theories have come close to developing justifications with any prospect of being codified in a way that might influence or shape secessionist politics (Norman, 1998)(5). However, the reality of political power and its operation in the world makes one suspect that no theory of secession is likely to provide the basis for a workable, constitutionally guaranteed, right of secession (Norman, 2003(10): 609).
Nationalism/Kukathas: (...) national sentiment sometimes leads to calls for some consideration to be given to the case for secession. On other occasions, however, it pushes in the other direction. While the principle of nationality is sympathetic to the interests or claims of groups, and particularly to their claims to the protection of their identity, by definition it must also be
wary of group claims that might undermine a national identity.
>Nationalism/Multiculturalism.

1. Beran, Harry (1984) 'A liberal theory of secession'. Political Studies, 32:21-31.
2. Beran, Harry (1987) The Consent Theory of Political Obligation. London: Croom Helm.
3. Buchanan, Allen (1991) Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec. Boulder, CO: Westview.
4.Buchanan, Allen (1997) 'Theories of secession'. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 26 (1): 30-61.
5. Norman, Wayne (1998) 'The ethics of secession as the regulation of secessionist politics'. In Margaret Moore, ed., National Self-determination and Secession. Oxford Universitv Press. 3
6. Philpott, Daniel (1995) 'In defence of self-determination'. Ethics, 105 (2): 352-85.
7. Philpott, Daniel (1998) 'Self-determination in practice'. In Margaret Moore, ed., National Self-Determination and Secession. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 79—102. 8. Raz and Margalit
9. Nielsen, Kai (1998) 'Liberal nationalism and secession'. In Margaret Moore, ed., National Self-Determination and Secession. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 103-33.
10. Norman, Wayne (2003) 'National autonomy'. In Hugh LaFollette, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 591—619.

Kukathas, Chandran 2004. „Nationalism and Multiculturalism“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications


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Political Philosophy
Gaus I
Gerald F. Gaus
Chandran Kukathas
Handbook of Political Theory London 2004


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