Towards Jihad?

In this paper I aim to offer a theory of secession. Secession is the process by which some group of people leaves one or more existing states, taking territory with them, in order to form a new state or join another existing state. The main goal of this project is to put forth what I think is the correct approach to the normative question "what are the circumstances under which a group has a moral right to secede?" This is a project that has been addressed by other political philosophers, most notably Alan Buchanan (1991) in his book Secession and Christopher Heath Wellman (2005) in his book A Theory of Secession. They and others have proposed theories of secession, and I aim to explain why my theory, which is that a group has a moral right to secede only if this would be better from a cosmopolitan point of view, might be a better way to think about the question