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INTRODUCTION  Harry Beran provides political philosophy’s first ‘liberal’ theory of secession.1 His theory is commonly attributed to the ‘Associative Group Theories’ with the likes of Wellman.2 In the ideal theory, the liberality of a state is determined by the voluntary relationship it shares with its subjects. Beran places weight on this voluntary relationship to develop his ‘Withdrawal […]

SECTION III: Argument from Territorial Integrity  Buchanan criticizes the ‘Primary Right Theorists’ on the grounds of the territorial integrity of a just and liberal sovereign state.1 He argues that according to the morally progressive interpretation of international, only the territorial integrity of illegitimate states can be violated. He provides two conditions which would render a state

Sir Henry Maine[1], when he devised a hitherto movement of societies from status to contract, quoted that countries like India and China are locked in an unchanging world.  They are burdened and bound by a fixed legal condition with prevailing family dependency, where law has a very limited application as it is binding upon families

Introduction In Friction, Anna Tsing aims to provide a nuanced and richly argued ethnographic model for analyzing how forces of globalization and capitalism interact with those of the local cultures, at particular junctions known as the “zones of friction”.[1] Therefore, it displays the heterogeneous elements that exist and gets involved in the process of globalization, thereby causing