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THE COMPLEX KNOT BETWEEN SOVEREIGNTY OF STATES AND SECESSION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW EVIDENCE FROM AROUND THE WORLD

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-III).07      10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-III).07      Published : Sep 2019

The Complex Knot between Sovereignty of States and Secession in International Law: Evidence from Around the World

    It is interesting to note that international law doesn't talk about the secession of any group from the parent state in express words. However, at the same time, it doesn't deny people's right to self-determination too. Despite all this ambiguity about secession in international law, state dissolution hasn't stopped. This secession is justified on two strands of theoretical arguments. The first one suggests that it is everyone's fundamental right to live or not to live in a particular state by forming a state of their own. The second one suggests that if a state commits atrocities on a particular community, and the victims exhaust all legal and democratic means to emancipate themselves and their community, they can resort to secession and separation from the parent state in the last resort. However, secession on such grounds is covered by norms and provisions of international law in the post-colonial world.

    Sovereignty of States, International Law, States' Rights
    (1) Ayaz Ali Shah
    Lecturer, Department of Political Science, AWKUM, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Nilofar Ihsan
    Lecturer, Department of Political Science, AWKUM, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Hina Malik
    Demonstrator, Department of Political Science, AWKUM, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
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    APA : Shah, A. A., Ihsan, N., & Malik, H. (2019). The Complex Knot between Sovereignty of States and Secession in International Law: Evidence from Around the World. Global Political Review, IV(III), 56-63. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-III).07
    CHICAGO : Shah, Ayaz Ali, Nilofar Ihsan, and Hina Malik. 2019. "The Complex Knot between Sovereignty of States and Secession in International Law: Evidence from Around the World." Global Political Review, IV (III): 56-63 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-III).07
    HARVARD : SHAH, A. A., IHSAN, N. & MALIK, H. 2019. The Complex Knot between Sovereignty of States and Secession in International Law: Evidence from Around the World. Global Political Review, IV, 56-63.
    MHRA : Shah, Ayaz Ali, Nilofar Ihsan, and Hina Malik. 2019. "The Complex Knot between Sovereignty of States and Secession in International Law: Evidence from Around the World." Global Political Review, IV: 56-63
    MLA : Shah, Ayaz Ali, Nilofar Ihsan, and Hina Malik. "The Complex Knot between Sovereignty of States and Secession in International Law: Evidence from Around the World." Global Political Review, IV.III (2019): 56-63 Print.
    OXFORD : Shah, Ayaz Ali, Ihsan, Nilofar, and Malik, Hina (2019), "The Complex Knot between Sovereignty of States and Secession in International Law: Evidence from Around the World", Global Political Review, IV (III), 56-63
    TURABIAN : Shah, Ayaz Ali, Nilofar Ihsan, and Hina Malik. "The Complex Knot between Sovereignty of States and Secession in International Law: Evidence from Around the World." Global Political Review IV, no. III (2019): 56-63. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-III).07