dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-12T09:17:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-12T09:17:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | 2007-05-22 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Angell, Kim. Secession and liberal equality. Masteroppgave, University of Oslo, 2007 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/14611 | |
dc.description.abstract | Liberal egalitarianism can offer two distinct perspectives on the morality of secession from a liberal state. One is permissive. The other is quite restrictive. This essay offers a defence of the latter variant, which is often called Just-Cause theory. On this view, secession can only be morally justified as a means to rectify past grievances on the part of the secessionist group. Secession must have a just cause. If none can be found, then the territorial sovereignty of a state that upholds liberal democratic rule cannot be thwarted. According to the rival position – Choice-theory – secession can be justified even in the absence of any injustice. This more permissive view on state breaking is expected to follow from valuing freedom of political association. I demonstrate how both approaches can be developed from central commitments of liberal egalitarian morality. These commitments often come into conflict. And the case of political divorce is no exception. A liberal theory of secession must therefore be at pains to come up with the best possible balancing of important, yet incongruous, commitments. In that respect, I argue that the Just-Cause approach represents the best overall liberal egalitarian theory of secession. | nor |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.title | Secession and liberal equality : an essay on the morality of secession from a liberal state | en_US |
dc.type | Master thesis | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2007-10-26 | en_US |
dc.creator.author | Angell, Kim | en_US |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::240 | en_US |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft.au=Angell, Kim&rft.title=Secession and liberal equality&rft.inst=University of Oslo&rft.date=2007&rft.degree=Masteroppgave | en_US |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:no-16728 | en_US |
dc.type.document | Masteroppgave | en_US |
dc.identifier.duo | 60449 | en_US |
dc.contributor.supervisor | Raino Malnes | en_US |
dc.identifier.bibsys | 071563113 | en_US |
dc.identifier.fulltext | Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/14611/1/MAxThesisxxKimxAngell.pdf | |