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Devolution hat die Auseinandersetzungen um den Status und die Zukunft Schottlands im UK und in Europa verändert, aber nicht beendet. Der vorliegende Beitrag rekonstruiert die zentralen institutionellen und theoretischen Konfliktlinien, die die mehrdimensionalen Debatten um Schottlands Status und konstitutionelle Zukunft gerade auch im europäischen Kontext prägen. Er zeigt, dass Argumentationsmuster aus den Debatten um Devolution in den Unabhängigkeitsdebatten 2013/2014 und infolge des Brexits weitergeführt, weiterentwickelt und in je spezifischer Weise zugespitzt werden. Aktuell zeichnet sich eine Polarisierung der Debatte ab, die sich an Fragen der konstituierenden Macht kristallisiert. Die Wahl zwischen einem Verbleib im UK und schottischer Unabhängigkeit bleibt aber auch in diesem Kontext unentschieden.

The paper assesses the questions if and, if yes, how the republican conception of free statehood can and should inform a compelling understanding of a legitimate post-Westphalian political order. To answer these questions, it, first, reconstructs the foundational arguments of republican internationalists in favour of free states and, second, assesses the points of contention republican cosmopolitans raise. Third, it develops an alternative approach, a republicanism of plural polities: Based on a relational and multi-dimensional understanding of citizenship, the paper questions the strong internationalist reliance on the citizenship-state-nexus and on statehood in general, but also takes issue with cosmopolitans' neglect of the boundedness of democratic self-determination. A republicanism of plural polities as a multi-perspectival approach to democratic institution-building in and beyond the state is open to constellations of plural polities of different forms and on different political levels while simultaneously recognising the particularity of each 'free polity'. It thereby adds a new dimension to debates on the political forms legitimate institutions can assume under post-Westphalian conditions and opens avenues for research on inter-polity relations, on more complex constellations of self-rule and shared rule as well as of multilateral decision-making, on sovereignty and independence. The latter are exemplified by reference to the European context.

In his new book, Pau Bossacoma Busquets combines political theory and philosophy with perspectives from international and constitutional law and a variety of empirical, historical and contemporary case studies. Thereby, he presents a new theoretical framework for discussing the Morality and Legality of Secession (2020) in general and various theoretical, institutional and practical challenges presented by movements for independence in particular

In his new book, Pau Bossacoma Busquets combines political theory and philosophy with perspectives from international and constitutional law and a variety of empirical, historical and contemporary case studies. Thereby, he presents a new theoretical framework for discussing the Morality and Legality of Secession (2020) in general and various theoretical, institutional and practical challenges presented by movements for independence in particular ; En su nuevo libro, Pau Bossacoma Busquets combina la teoría política y la filosofía con perspectivas del derecho internacional y constitucional y una variedad de estudios de casos empíricos, históricos y contemporáneos. De esta manera, presenta un nuevo marco teórico para discutir la Moralidad y Legalidad de la Secesión (2020) en general y varios desafíos teóricos, institucionales y prácticos que presentan los movimientos independentistas en particular.