Tag: EU
Self-Determination versus State Integrity: Catalan and Kurdish Issues
Two crises are brewing, one in Iraq and one in Spain, over the perennial problem of whether self-determination takes precedence over territorial integrity.
CETA, Local Democracy, and the Liberal Order
CETA–the Canada/EU free trade agreement–is now on political life support. The multiyear effort to craft a common market across the Atlantic and to strengthen the bonds of the liberal order in the West is running right up against the local democracy of Wallonia.