On Independence: Catalonia, Kurdistan, North Korea and Latin America
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ANTIDIPLOMATICO
Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets with Massoud Barzani, president of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, in Iraq, April 22, 2016. (Photo from the US Department of Defense)
Interview with Andre Vltchek by Alessandro Bianchi, Chief Editor of the Italian political magazine L’Antidiplomatico.
AB: Self-determination of peoples and respect for the borders and sovereignty of a country. This is of the most complicated issue for international law. How can it be articulated for the case of Catalonia?
AV: Personally, I’m not very enthusiastic about smaller nations forming their own states, particularly those in the West, where they would, after gaining ‘independence’, remain in the alliances that are oppressing and plundering the ent...