Is Self-Determination a Dangerous Illusion?

Is Self-Determination a Dangerous Illusion?
Author: David Miller
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-12-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781509533473

Claims to self-determination are rife in world politics today. They range from Scottish and Catalonian campaigns for independence to calls for the devolution of power to regions and cities. But is self-determination meaningful or desirable in the twenty-first century, or merely a dangerous illusion? In this book, David Miller mounts a powerful defence of political self-determination. He explains why it is valuable and argues that geographic proximity alone is not enough for groups to have the capacity for self-determination: group members must also identify with each other. He explores the different political forms that self-determination can take, and he suggests some realistic constraints on how it can be achieved, concluding that people exercising their collective agency is still both feasible and important. Anyone concerned by the theoretical issues raised by the various secessionist and nationalist movements around the world should read this book.

Deconstructing Self-Determination in International Law

Deconstructing Self-Determination in International Law
Author: Przemysław Tacik
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2023-07-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004680268

The right of peoples to self-determination seems well-settled and covered extensively in the scholarly record. Yet old Trotsky’s question – of whom is this right and to what? – haunts the self-determination literature. Somehow almost every work on it begins with an expression of puzzlement. This right turns out to be elusive, underdefined in its scope and content, paradoxical in almost every aspect. This book mobilises all powers of critical legal theory and modern philosophy to take the bull by its horns. Instead of ironing out the paradoxes, it aims to finally give them a proper explanation based on the concept of exception.

Freedom and Experience

Freedom and Experience
Author: Kevin Magill
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 207
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Free will and determinism.
ISBN: 9780312164744

The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
Author: Panos Merkouris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009035843

This volume discusses the theory, practice, and interpretation of customary international law, as well as new developments and future research trajectories. Combining discussions of familiar concepts with new ideas, it is useful for researchers, scholars, and practitioners of international law. Available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Freedom and Experience

Freedom and Experience
Author: Kevin Magill
Publisher: DR KEVIN MAGILL
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-01-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Most of us take it for granted that we are free agents: that we can sometimes act so as to shape our own lives and those of others, that we have choices about how to do so and that we are responsible for what we do. But are we really justified in believing this? For centuries philosophers have argued about whether free will and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism or natural causation, and they seem no closer to agreeing about it now than at any time in the past. Many contemporary philosophers have come to the conclusion that the intractability of the old argument about free will and determinism is caused by deep rooted illusions and inconsistencies in our unreflective attitudes about moral responsibility and freedom to act. Kevin Magill challenges this view and argues that the philosophical stalemate about free will has arisen through lack of attention to the content of the experiences that shape our understanding of free will and agency and through a mistaken belief that the concept of moral responsibility requires a moral and metaphysical justification. The book sets out an original account of the various ways we experience choosing, deciding and acting, which reconciles the apparently opposing intuitions that have fuelled the traditional dispute.

Freedom, Culture, and the Right to Exclude

Freedom, Culture, and the Right to Exclude
Author: Uwe Steinhoff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000568210

This book argues that citizens have a moral right to decide by which criteria they grant migrants citizenship, as well as to control access to their territory in the first place. In developing and defending this argument, it critically engages numerous objections, thus providing the reader with a thorough overview of the current debate on the ethics of immigration and exclusion. The author’s argument is based on a straightforwardly individualist and liberal starting point. One of the rights granted by liberalism is freedom of association, which also comprises the right not to associate with people with whom one does not want to associate. While this is an individual right, it can be exercised collectively like many other individual rights. Thus, people can decide to collectively organize into an association pursuing certain goals; and subject to certain provisos, this gives rise to legitimate claims to space and territory in which they pursue these goals. The author shows that this right is far-reaching and robust, which entails an equally far-reaching and robust right to exclude. Moreover, he demonstrates that large-scale immigration from illiberal cultures tends to severely compromise the way of life, the values, and the institutions of liberal democracies in ways routinely ignored by apologists for multiculturalism. Freedom, Culture, and the Right to Exclude will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in applied ethics, political philosophy, political theory, and law.

Nationalism, Self-Determination and Political Geography

Nationalism, Self-Determination and Political Geography
Author: R. J. Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131761013X

This book explores the place of nationalism in the modern world. It looks at the relationships between nationalism, politics and states, explores the rise of minority national movements and the problems they cause, and discusses the problems of national integration in particular countries. It analyses the problems in a general and thematic way and includes a number of important case studies.

The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples

The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples
Author: Jörg Fisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2015-12-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316445151

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.

Dangerous Illusion

Dangerous Illusion
Author: Melissa James
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004
Genre: First loves
ISBN: 9780373273584

Dangerous Illusion by Melissa James released on Mar 25, 2004 is available now for purchase.

States, Human Rights, and Distant Strangers

States, Human Rights, and Distant Strangers
Author: Angela Müller
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2023-10-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1003807291

This book combines legal and philosophical perspectives to address the question of whether states are bound by human rights when they act with effects on people abroad—states’ extraterritorial human rights obligations. Taking an innovative approach, it begins with a profound legal analysis of the issue at national, supranational, and international levels and then engages in depth with counterarguments against extraterritorially applying human rights, on the basis of which it develops its own ethical justificatory theory of extraterritorial human rights obligations. The book closes the circle by showing what the practical implications of this theory for the interpretation (and possible evolvement) of human rights law would be. In a world where critiques of, and resistance to, the general idea of universal human rights are on rise, the book contributes to closing the gap between judicial and normative perspectives on extraterritorial human rights obligations by inquiring into the ethical underpinnings of this topical legal challenge. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in human rights, international law, and more broadly in political philosophy, philosophy of law, and international relations.