Catalans and Kurds Discover the Hard Truth About Secession
- 7 years ago
Catalans and Kurds Discover the Hard Truth About Secession
Ms. Coggins called it "a beautiful, peaceful movement"
but "utterly befuddling from an international relations perspective." The Catalans have little international support and face heavy opposition, as do Iraq’s Kurds, setting both on a collision course with world powers and the painful contradictions of secession politics.
For all the high-minded window dressing that often attaches to secession rules, in the end, they "have more
to do with what the powerful want," said Bridget L. Coggins, a political scientist who studies secession.
This helps get around the fact that there is no legal right, under international or often domestic law, for secession.
But the vote has instead galvanized Washington and Baghdad in opposition, illustrating what the scholars Erica Chenoweth and Tanisha M. Fazal have called "the secessionists’ dilemma" —
that the unstated rules for secession often fail or even backfire.
Opinio Juris wrote that As it is generally understood, there is no right to secede under international law,
Ms. Coggins called it "a beautiful, peaceful movement"
but "utterly befuddling from an international relations perspective." The Catalans have little international support and face heavy opposition, as do Iraq’s Kurds, setting both on a collision course with world powers and the painful contradictions of secession politics.
For all the high-minded window dressing that often attaches to secession rules, in the end, they "have more
to do with what the powerful want," said Bridget L. Coggins, a political scientist who studies secession.
This helps get around the fact that there is no legal right, under international or often domestic law, for secession.
But the vote has instead galvanized Washington and Baghdad in opposition, illustrating what the scholars Erica Chenoweth and Tanisha M. Fazal have called "the secessionists’ dilemma" —
that the unstated rules for secession often fail or even backfire.
Opinio Juris wrote that As it is generally understood, there is no right to secede under international law,