Kurdistan and Catalonia as new states? Caught between sovereignty and peoples’ right to self-determination

During recent weeks, two major referenda have taken place with serious ambition: to create new states by secession, one in Catalonia in Spain, one in the Kurdish territory in Iraq. The current analysis sheds light to the international legal background of similar situations and their possible consequence under the current legalpolitical circumstances.

Read the full International law reflection here.





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