The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples : The Domestication of an Illusion Hardback
by Joerg (Universitat Zurich) Fisch
Part of the Human Rights in History series
Hardback
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 8 Maps; 2 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/12/2015
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- ISBN:9781107037960
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 8 Maps; 2 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/12/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107037960
