Claims for Secession and Federalism

Chapter 1 When Federalism Faces Secession: Presentation of a Theoretical-Practical Analysis of the Spanish Experience in the Light of Comparative Law

Chapter 2 Secession and Federalism in the United States: Tools for Managing Regional Conflict in a Pluralist Society

Chapter 3 Legality, Legitimacy, Decisionism and Federalism: An Analysis of the Supreme Court of Canada’s Reasoning in Reference re Secession of Quebec, 1998

Chapter 4 Competing Claims for Federalism in Complex Political Settings. A Canadian Exploration

Chapter 5 Is the Québec Secession Movement Dead? Perspectives After Canada’s 2015 Federal Election

Chapter 6 Provincial Integration Through the Senate: Trudeau’s (Not Quite) New Era

Chapter 7 ‘Scotland in the United Kingdom: An Enduring Settlement’?

Chapter 8 The Future of the United Kingdom’s Territorial Constitution: Can the Union Survive?

Chapter 9 Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Responsibility: The Case of Scotland

Chapter 10 The Scottish Independence Referendum: Lessons Learned for the Future

Chapter 11 The End of Belgium As We Know It: From Consociational Democracy to Partitocratic Deadlock?

Chapter 12 Secessionist Claims in a Federal System: The Belgian Case

Chapter 13 The Relations Between Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. A Model with Future to Challenge Secessionism?

Chapter 14 The Italian Regional State: A Counter-Reformation After the Failure of the 2001 Constitutional Reform?

Chapter 15 Constitutionalizing Secession in Order to Harmonize Constitutionality and Democracy in Territorial Decentralized States Like Spain

Chapter 16 Territorial Referendums from a Constitutionalist Perspective: Functions, Justifications and Legal Design

Chapter 17 The Sovereign State and the Right to Secede. Historical Examples and Theoretical Reasons Concerning the Benefits of Political Regulation

Chapter 18 Federative Tools: A New Perspective for Secession

Chapter 19 Reasons for and Limits of the Referendum as a Mechanism to Declare the Secession of Part of a State

Chapter 20 The Myth of Ontological Foundations and the Secession Clause as Federal Answers to National Claims of External Self-Determination

Chapter 21 Claims for Secession in Catalonia. Rule of Law, Democratic Principle and Federal Alternative

Chapter 22 Secession and Federalism. The Spanish Case

Chapter 23 Constitution and Referendum on Secession in Catalonia

Chapter 24 Federalism and Democratic Quality: The Contribution of Territorial Pluralism to Constitutional Democracy

Chapter 25 Political Pluralism and Independence in Catalonia: Lessons Learned from Federalism

Chapter 26 Federal Reform of Spain vs Secession in Catalonia. Could Constitutional Reform Provide a Response to the Demands Upon Which the Justification for Secession Are Based?

Chapter 27 Which Federalism for Spain?

Chapter 28 Constitutional Reform Within the Context of the Debate on the Independence of Catalonia

Chapter 29 The Constitutional Answer to the Crisis of the Model of Territorial Organization

Chapter 30 Constitutional Reform and Federalism in Spain. A Modest Proposal

Chapter 31 Constitutional Reform and Global Market Federalism

Chapter 32 Territorial Secession and Federal Loyalty in the 1978 Spanish Constitution

Chapter 33 State Integration and Disintegration Within the European Union. Regarding the Purported Secession of Catalonia and Its Hypothetical Membership of the EU

Chapter 34 The Catalan Independence Movement in the Political and Constitutional Debate in the European Union