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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Decolonization

Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, Michael Riegner

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
July 2020

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Colonization — Decolonization — Constitutional processes — National identity

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 Decolonization is commonly defined as the historical process by which European empires collapsed and former colonies became new independent states during classical and late modernity (Strang (1991) 429–30; Kennedy 5; colonization). In the former colonies, this process typically culminated in the enactment of a new constitution. These constitutions symbolized and realized the sovereign and independent character of the new political communities. They synthesized the communities’ political objectives, the institutional structures to achieve these objectives, and...
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