Lorenzo Piccoli - openDemocracy

Why international interdependence has reduced the costs of secession

As countries collaborate more and more, there is less and less need to band together in big national units.

/ 8 Jul 2014

Civil rights: playing the territorial card

Sub-state institutions may claim that they need self-government in order to maintain their distinct progressive tradition while, in reality, the distinct progressive tradition is often created in order to justify claims to self-government.

By Lorenzo Piccoli

/ 8 May 2014

Civil rights: playing the territorial card

Sub-state institutions may claim that they need self-government in order to maintain their distinct progressive tradition while, in reality, the distinct progressive tradition is often created in order to justify claims to self-government.

By Lorenzo Piccoli

/ 8 May 2014

Are smaller avenues of collective self-determination emerging out of the crisis?

Is national citizenship still a valid organizational factor in the context of the crisis? A radical re-thinking of political citizenship, based on smaller entities such as Catalonia, Scotland or Flanders, may emerge as a reaction to growing imbalances.

By Lorenzo Piccoli

/ 29 Jan 2013