As we take up the issue of Self-Determination this week, you will be interested to know that real issues relating to self-determination are unfolding on the world stage. First, the
Kurdish people of Iraq are voting in a
plebiscite today on whether the issue of independence and secession, which the Iraqi Prime Minister has threatened to respond to with force. The
U.S. State Department, and the
Iranian and Turkish Governments, have both announced their opposition to the movement.
At the same time, the people of the Catalonia region in Spain are
planning a referendum there, which the Spanish government has vowed to block.
Do either situations satisfy the conditions necessary for external self-determination and a right to secession and independence? Would either region satisfy the Monte-Video principles for statehood if they did secede? Do you think that either should be granted independence? If one and not the other, on what basis?
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