UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY STATES AND THEIR RECOGNITION UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW- COMPARING KOSOVO AND CRIMEA
Journal: Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry
Year: 2021

There is no doubt that the right to self- determination consists of one of the most controversial rights in international law. In the company, of equally controversial concepts like sovereignty and territorial integrity, it has emerged as a precursor to some of the most acute claims of secession in the world today, including the independence claims of Catalonia, Kurdistan etc. As recent events have shown - for example the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Kosovo –there is very little tha