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İlker Gökhan Şen Sovereignty Referendums in International and Constitutional Law Sovereignty Referendums in International and Constitutional Law ThiSisaFMBlankPage ˙ Ilker Go¨khan S¸en Sovereignty Referendums in International and Constitutional Law I˙lkerGo¨khanS¸en FacultyofLaw AnadoluUniversity Eskisehir Turkey ISBN978-3-319-11646-4 ISBN978-3-319-11647-1(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-11647-1 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015930032 ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionor informationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfromthislegalreservationarebriefexcerpts inconnectionwithreviewsorscholarlyanalysisormaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeing enteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework.Duplication ofthispublicationorpartsthereofispermittedonlyundertheprovisionsoftheCopyrightLawofthe Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer.PermissionsforusemaybeobtainedthroughRightsLinkattheCopyrightClearanceCenter. 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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Preface This book offersa systematic legalanalysis of referendums on sovereignty issues andisbasedonmyPh.D.dissertationfromtheUniversityofZurich,FacultyofLaw whichwasapprovedon11December2013.Theconcernforauthenticityhasledme topreferafacsimilepublicationexceptforcertainformalmodificationsofthetext. Thisisthemainreasonfortheexclusionofcertainreferendumsheldin2014,such as the ones in Crimea, Scotland and Catalonia. Putting aside the challenge of updating,thesesubsequentdevelopmentshave,fortunately,reconfirmedmybelief fromtheverybeginningofthisprojectthattheuseofreferendumsisgrowinginthe resolutionofsovereigntyconflictsininternationalandnationalpolitics.Ihopethis book willserveasa useful reference for researchers ininternational and constitu- tionallawwhohaveascholarlyinterestinthesubjectofsovereigntyreferendums. Eskisehir,Turkey I˙lkerGo¨khanS¸en v ThiSisaFMBlankPage Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to express the deepest appreciation and gratitude to myPh.D. supervisor Professor Dr. Andreas Auer, who has shown the attitudeandthesubstanceofanexperiencedscholar,amentorandafriend.Without hissupervisionandconstanthelp,thisthesiswouldnothavebeenpossible. I am immensely grateful to those who gave much help during my visits to the Center for Research on Direct Democracy (c2d) attached to the University of Zurich in Aarau. Uwe Serdu¨lt, Fernando Mendez and Vasiliki Triga provided me aconvenientandcomfortableworkplace.IamalsoindebtedtotheDumontFamily: Martina,Raymond,Louis andIsabelle for hosting me intheir homeseveral times duringmyvisitstoAarau. IwouldliketoexpressmyspecialthankstoProf.Dr.JamesHanlon,ElifAkalp, EdwardMcquaidandMarkDanielfortheirinvaluablehelpintheimprovementof the English of the preliminary drafts of my thesis. Also, I wish to thank Antoine BarretandSalehChowdhuryfortheirsupportinthecourseofwritingthesections relevanttoFranceandtheUK. Also,Iwishtoexpressmythankstotheacademicandadministrativestaffofthe AnadoluUniversityFacultyofLaw.IowemuchtoProf.Dr.Nu¨vitGerek,Assoc. Prof.Dr.Ays¸eTu¨linYu¨ru¨kandProf.Dr.UfukAydınforprovidingmeapositive andaconvivialworkingenvironmentsinceIstartedmyacademiccareerin2001. I am particularly indebted to Prof. Dr. Erdal Onar, who has supported me in everystageofmyacademiclife. Specialthanksareduetomyfamilyandmyfriends.Iowemuchtomyparents Bu¨lent and Nevin, my sister Sibel, my friends Nathalie Boillat, Esin and Hakan Ferhatog˘lu, Bu¨lent Yu¨cel, Kasım Akbas¸, Gizem Koc¸ak, Barıs¸ Toraman, Duygu O¨zer Sarıtas¸ for their full support and encouragement during the period of prepa- rationofthisdissertation. vii ThiSisaFMBlankPage Abbreviations CNMI CommonwealthofNorthernMarianaIslands CNRT NationalCouncilofTimoreseResistance COFA CompactofFreeAssociation CPA ComprehensivePeaceAgreement CSCE ConferenceofSecurityandCooperationinEurope DCP DerivedConstituentPower DOM De´partementd’OutreMer ECtHR EuropeanCourtofHumanRights EEC EuropeanEconomicCommunity ELA EstadoLibreAsociado EU EuropeanUnion FAS FreelyAssociatedStates FLNKS Frontdelibe´rationnationalekanaketsocialiste FSM TheFederatedStatesofMicronesia GA GeneralAssembly ICCPR InternationalCovenantonCivilandPoliticalRights ICRC InternationalCommitteeoftheRedCross IGAD Inter-GovernmentalAuthorityonDevelopment INTERFET InternationalForceinEastTimor LRSLS LawontheReferendumonStateLegalStatus MINURSO UnitedNationsMissionforaReferenduminWesternSahara NC NationalCouncil NCC NationalConsultativeCouncil NCP NationalCongressParty NIA NorthernIrelandAct NPP NewProgressiveParty OAU OrganizationofAfricanUnity OCP OriginalConstituentPower ODIHR OfficeforDemocraticInstitutionsandHumanRights ix
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