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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| Language: | English German |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
| Series: | Human rights in history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: national unity and secession in the symbolism of power
- Introduction : a concept and ideal
- Individual self-determination
- Collective self-determination
- The people
- Self-determination and the right of self-determination
- The early modern period in europe: precursors of a right of self-determination?
- The first decolonization and the right to independence: the Americas 1776-1826
- The French revolution and the invention of the plebiscite
- From the European restoration to the first world war, 1815-1914
- The first world war and the peace treaties 1918-1923
- The interwar period, 1923-1939
- The second world war: the perversion of a great promise
- The cold war and the second decolonization, 1945-1989
- After 1989 : the quest for a new equilibrium
- Epilogue : the right of the weak.
