National self-determination and national secession: Individualist and communitarian approaches

Theories of Secession

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 149-178

  Caney, Simon ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203981283-15     Document Type: Chapter

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105. Harry Beran, Keith Dowding, Matthew Festenstein, Michael Freeman, Paul Gilbert, Charles Jones, Percy Lehning, Avner de-Shalit, Hillel Steiner and an anonymous referee for their criticisms and suggestions. Another version of this paper was published in the Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 4, 1997.