Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law

Miriam Bak McKenna, Ph.D, LL.M. University of Copenhagen is an Associate Professor of Law at the Institute of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Her work focusses on the theory and history of international law, drawing in particular on critical feminist and decolonial approaches to law.

• AcknowledgementsTable of CasesIntroduction1Recovering Self-Determination’s History2An Aperture for Worldmaking3Organisation of the Book4Approach1 Self-Determination: Between Hierarchy and Equality1Sovereignty and Empire2Popular Sovereignty and the Age of Revolution3National Self-Determination, Imperial Expansion and the Civilizing Mission2 Renegotiating Sovereignty in the Interwar Period1Self-Determination as Political Strategy2Post WWI Resettlement and “The New International Law”3The Aaland Islands Dispute4 Quasi-Sovereigns: The Mandate and Trusteeship System3 “One World” - Anticolonialism at the UN1Self-Determination and the New World Order2Contesting Empire at the UN3Anti-Colonial Activism4The Colonial Declaration5 The Boundaries of Independence4 Remaking the World after Empire1A New International Law2Strengthening the Post-Colonial State3Economic Self-Determination and the New International Economic Order4The Human Rights Revolution and Self-Determination5 Sovereignty and Self-Determination at the End of History1New and Old Claims2Adjudicating Secession3Human Rights, Democracy and the New Standards of Sovereignty4 Re-working Sovereignty: Minority and Indigenous RightsEpilogue: Contesting SovereigntyReferencesIndex