Self-Determination: Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity, and

original answer given by international law From the point of view of international law, unilateral secession is only accepted in the context of decolonization and the right to self-determination of the peoples The Advisory Board for National Transition created by the Government of Catalonia recognized this fact in its Report No 4

The Remedial Right of Secession in International Law

standing of secession, situate current practice in the context of secession theory, and then ultimately determine how the international community should respond to secession in the future Section one reviews the existing instruments of international law that deal with the issue of secession This sets the foundation for an institutionally centered

Self-Determination: Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity, and

secession has not been universally recognized as an international right It may choose, on the basis of other interests, to support the secessionist claims of a self-determination movement, but not because the group is exercising its rightto seces-sion, since no such right exists in international law At the same time, an absolute rejection of

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SECESSION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

The Remedial Right of Secession in International Law

Self-Determination: Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity, and