How is secession different from self-determination?

Self-determination is generally taken to refer to the formal right, under international law, of a particular cultural group to determine its own affairs, while secession implies the detachment of a particular territory and/or population from one jurisdiction to another. read more

Rothbard asked this same question, and it brings us back to Mises’s comments on self-determination. Mises writes: If it were in any way possible to grant this right of self-determination to every individual person, it would have to be done. read more

3. Michla Pomerance, for example, doubts that there is a"right" to self-determination. M. POMERANCE, SELF-DETERMINATIONIN LAWAND PRACTICE71 (1982) ("Thesuggestion thatself-determina­ tion is a principle ofjus cogens is thus seen to be without any firm legal foundation"). Others claim that there is a legal right to self-determination. read more