Del i serien Human Rights in History

The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples

The Domestication of an Illusion

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvJörg Fisch

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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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Utgivningsdatum2015-12-09
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHuman Rights in History
Antal sidor349
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107688209
ÖversättareAnita Mage, Anita (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin) Mage

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Prologue: national unity and secession in the symbolism of power; Introduction: a concept and ideal; Part I. Theory of Self-Determination: 1. Individual self-determination; 2. Collective self-determination; 3. The people; 4. Self-determination and the right of self-determination; Part II. Self-Determination in Practice: 5. The early modern period in Europe: precursors of a right of self-determination?; 6. The first decolonization and the right to independence: the Americas, 1776–1826; 7. The French Revolution and the invention of the plebiscite; 8. From the European Restoration to the First World War, 1815–1914; 9. The First World War and the peace treaties, 1918–23; 10. The interwar period, 1923–39; 11. The Second World War: the perversion of a great promise; 12. The Cold War and the second decolonization, 1945–89; 13. After 1989: the quest for a new equilibrium; Epilogue: the right of the weak.