National Self-determination and Secession

National Self-determination and Secession
Author: Margaret Moore (Ph. D.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1998
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198293844

Recently, numerous multi-national states have disintegrated along national lines, and today many more continue to witness bitter secessionist struggles. This study brings together a series of essays on the ethics of secession.

National Self-Determination and Justice in Multinational States

National Self-Determination and Justice in Multinational States
Author: Anna Moltchanova
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-08-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9048126916

Substate nationalism, especially in the past fifteen years, has noticeably affected the political and territorial stability of many countries, both democratic and democratizing. Norms exist to limit the behavior of collective agents in relation to individuals; the set of universally accepted human rights provides a basic framework. There is a lacuna in international law, however, in the regulation of the behavior of groups toward other groups, with the exception of relations among states. The book offers a normative approach to moderate minority nationalism that treats minorities and majorities in multinational states justly and argues for the differentiation of group rights based on how group agents are constituted. It argues that group agency requires a shared set of beliefs concerning membership and the social ontology it offers ensures that group rights can be aligned with individual rights. It formulates a set of principles that, if adopted, would aid conflict resolution in multinational states. The book pays special attention to national self-determination in transitional societies. The book is intended for everyone in political philosophy and political science interested in global justice and international law and legal practitioners interested in normative issues and group rights

National Identities and the Right to Self-Determination of Peoples

National Identities and the Right to Self-Determination of Peoples
Author: Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004294333

In National Identities and the Right to Self-Determination of Peoples, Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen revisits the legal right to self-determination of peoples and suggests an integrative model for securing the cohesion of the various nationalities within multinational states. The model, set on both legal and political science theories, departs from civic nationalism but calls to strengthen it with more immediate and emotional means, such as shared national symbols and multicultural education. Moodrick-Even Khen explores the political history of Canada, Belgium, and Spain and touches upon other divided societies such as South Africa, Northern Ireland and Cyprus. Drawing upon these cases, she suggests a future model for a cohesive society in Israel, which is currently nationally divided between Arabs and Jews.

The Politics of Self-Determination

The Politics of Self-Determination
Author: Volker Prott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-09-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191083550

The Politics of Self-Determination examines the territorial restructuring of Europe between 1917 and 1923, when a radically new and highly fragile peace order was established. It opens with an exploration of the peace planning efforts of Great Britain, France, and the United States in the final phase of the First World War. It then provides an in-depth view on the practice of Allied border drawing at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, focussing on a new factor in foreign policymaking-academic experts employed by the three Allied states to aid in peace planning and border drawing. This examination of the international level is juxtaposed with two case studies of disputed regions where the newly drawn borders caused ethnic violence, albeit with different results: the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France in 1918-19, and the Greek-Turkish War between 1919 and 1922. A final chapter investigates the approach of the League of Nations to territorial revisionism and minority rights, thereby assessing the chances and dangers of the Paris peace order over the course of the 1920s and 1930s. Volker Prott argues that at both the international and the local levels, the 'temptation of violence' drove key actors to simplify the acclaimed principle of national self-determination and use ethnic definitions of national identity. While the Allies thus hoped to avoid uncomfortable decisions and painstaking efforts to establish an elusive popular will, local elites, administrations, and paramilitary leaders soon used ethnic notions of identity to mobilise popular support under the guise of international legitimacy. Henceforth, national self-determination ceased to be a tool of peace-making and instead became an ideology of violent resistance.

The Theory of Self-Determination

The Theory of Self-Determination
Author: Fernando R. Tesón
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107119138

In this book, leading scholars re-examine the principle of national self-determination from diverse theoretical perspectives.

The Wilsonian Moment

The Wilsonian Moment
Author: Erez Manela
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2007-07-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195176154

This book tells the neglected story of non-Western peoples at the time of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing how Woodrow Wilson's rhetoric of self-determination helped ignite the upheavals that erupted in the spring of 1919 in four disparate non-Western societies--Egypt, India, China and Korea.

Self-Determination of Peoples

Self-Determination of Peoples
Author: Antonio Cassese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1995
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521637527

The definitive study of the doctrine of self-determination of peoples.

Self-determination and National Unity

Self-determination and National Unity
Author: Francis Mading Deng
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2010
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9781592216796

Most African countries suffer from crises of national identity that are rooted in the formation of pluralistic states, characterised by gross inequities among the component groups. This situation has its roots in colonialism, but instead of seeking remedies and addressing these disparities, many post-independent African governments adopted wholesale the constitutional models of their colonisers. United Nations Advisor Francis M. Deng addresses the challenge faced by these countries and attempts to tackle the difficulties inherent in managing such diversity.

Morality and Legality of Secession

Morality and Legality of Secession
Author: Pau Bossacoma Busquets
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030265897

This book explores secession from three normative disciplines: political philosophy, international law and constitutional law. The author first develops a moral theory of secession based on a hypothetical multinational contract. Under this contract theory, injustices do not determine the existence of a right to secede, but the requirements to exercise it. The book’s second part then argues that international law is more inclined to accept and advance a remedial right approach to secession. Therefore, justice as multinational fairness is to be fully institutionalized under the constitutional law of liberal democracies. The final part proposes constitutionalizing a qualified right to secede with the aim of fostering recognition and accommodation of national pluralism as well as cooperation and compromise between majority and minority nations.