The right of self-determination of peoples: the domestication of an illusion

The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. Cover...

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Main Author: Fisch, Jörg 1947- (Author)
Other Authors: Mage, Anita 1968- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Edition:First English edition
Series:Human rights in history
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Summary:The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. Covering both the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century independence movements in the Americas and the twentieth-century decolonization worldwide, this book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples. It addresses the political contexts in which the right and concept were formulated and the practices developed to restrain its potentially anarchic character, its inception in anti-colonialism, nationalism, and the labor movement, its instrumentalization at the end of the First World War in a formidable duel that Wilson lost to Lenin, its abuse by Hitler, the path after the Second World War to its recognition as a human right in 1966, and its continuing impact after decolonization
Item Description:Originally published in German as Das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker in 2010. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Dec 2015)
Physical Description:1 Online Ressource (X, 339 Seiten)
ISBN:9781139805698
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139805698

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