Self-Determination and Secession

Dr. Natalija Shikova is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the International Balkan University in Skopje, the Republic of North Macedonia. Her expertise is in the sphere of international public law, and she teaches related courses at the faculty and the university level. Occasionally, she is a guest lecturer at the other universities in the country and abroad. As for her academic training, she has a bachelor’s degree and passed the bar exam in law, as well as a PhD in international law from the University St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, the Republic of North Macedonia. From 2011 to 2012, she was a Fulbright research scholar at George Washington University Law School in Washington DC, USA.

• Introduction.- PART I SELF-DETERMINATION OF PEOPLES.- Phases and developments of the concept of the self- determination of the peoples.- The right holders of self-determination.- Practicing the right to self-determination.-Ways and modalities for realization of the self – determination.-   PART II SECESSION.-  The phenomenon of secession.- The dynamics of secession.- The legitimacy of the secession claims.- The emergence of a secessionist entity.- PART THREE:  INTERNAL SELF-DETERMINATION.- The internal aspect of the right to self-determination.- The social base for realization of internal self-determination.-  Tools and forms for the realization of internal self-determination.- Systems of power sharing.- Part IV CONCLUSIONS.- Self – determination revisited.