The multiple faces of the “right to decide” vs. a citizenship built up on the idea of concentric identities

Abstract

By invoking the «right to decide», politically it is argued the existence of a right to secede that, in fact, requires the previous acceptance of a factual conception of sovereignty. That reasoning raises more questions than answers, both for the hypothetically new state, and for the primal one. Instead of a discussion on the «right to decide», we argue for a debate on the concept of citizenship.