http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3655-334X
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ABSTRACT
The text reacts to the development of the concept of Partially Independent Territories in previous works. Even though the authors clearly agree with the need to study territories diverging from the traditionally accepted understanding of sovereignty, they find several empirical and conceptual problems with this particular term. The text presents a critique of some of the important aspects of the PITs. The presented response to the previous research aims to highlight the most problematic issues and help further develop and clarify our understanding of the partial independence.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
ORCID
Martin Riegl http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3655-334X
Bohumil Doboš http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8862-2768
Jan Bečka http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3751-3286
Notes
1 He also considered the use of other terms, such as ‘partially sovereign territory’ (Rezvani, Citation2016, p. 271).
2 ‘[T]he term non-self-governing appears to refer not to history or geography, but to the status of (relative subordination of freedom of the people of a territory, i.e., the people whose territory it is … ’ (Crawford, Citation2006, p. 606).
3 On the other hand, he finds a similarity in the constitutionally entrenched powers (Rezvani, Citation2016, p. 274), which is a correct assumption, because this indeed is a characteristic of a federative form of government (in cases of both symmetric and asymmetric federalism); however, this also applies to autonomous regions such as Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste (Art. 116), the Spanish regions or the UK.