{"id":2002,"date":"2016-03-08T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2016-03-10T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:32:11","slug":"rightindependentstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/rightindependentstate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Be an Independent State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>John Breuilly\/ Cara Nine<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20160308_1830_theRightToBeAnIndependentState.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the podcast<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>6.30 \u2013 8.00pm, Tuesday 8 March\u00a02016<br \/>\nWolfson\u00a0Theatre, LSE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/researchAndExpertise\/Experts\/profile.aspx?KeyValue=j.breuilly%40lse.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">John Breuilly<\/a><\/span>, Emeritus Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity (LSE)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/publish.ucc.ie\/researchprofiles\/A023\/cnine\" target=\"_blank\">Cara Nine<\/a><\/span>, Lecturer in Philosophy (University College Cork)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/peter-dennis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Dennis<\/a><\/span>, Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (LSE) and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>Recent years have seen numerous calls for independence: in Kosovo, South Sudan, Scotland, Catalonia, and in Eastern parts of Ukraine. Are all declarations of independence created equal, or are some more legitimate than others? What gives a territory the right to become an independent country, and under what conditions can a state prevent it from doing so?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LSEFEP?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#LSEFEP<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Breuilly\/ Cara Nine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[55],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-politicalphilosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2015\/12\/Fpound-small.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-wi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11351,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/11351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}