title: States without Power and Power without States
abstract: In the spring of 2014, the people of Crimea were the subject of a selfdetermination referendum, held on March 16th, in the population was asked to freely decide (many will say that the decision was taken with the gun pointed at their heads) if they want to join Russia as a federal subject, or to maintain their status as a part of Ukraine. Two months later, on May 24th, a gunman (member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels and killed
journal: International Journal on Humanistic Ideology