Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law

Allen Buchanan · Oxford University Press (2004)

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The Remedial Right Only (RRO) philosophical theory: a right of unilateral secession arises only as a remedy for serious and persistent injustice that cannot be remedied through less drastic means. Buchanan rejects plebiscitary and nationalist theories of secession. RRO is the philosophical companion to Cassese's doctrinal formulation. Margaret Moore's critique (that RRO understates the moral weight of nationhood) is the standard counter.

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