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This open access book brings conceptual clarity to the study and practice of self-determination, showing that it is, without doubt, one of the most important concepts of the international legal order. It argues that the accepted categorisation of internal and external self-determination is not helpful, and suggests a new typology. This new framework has four categories: the polity-based, secessionary, colonial, and remedial forms. Each will be distinguished by the grounds, or the legitimacy-claim, on which it is based. This not only ensures consistency, it moves the question out of the purely conceptual realm and addresses the practical concerns of those invoking self-determination. By presenting international lawyers with a typology that is both theoretically consistent and more practically useful, the author makes a significant contribution to our understanding of this keystone of international law. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches offentliches Recht und Volkerrecht.

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"Self-determination is, without doubt, one of the most important concepts of the international legal order, but debates still exist around what precisely it means. This book brings conceptual clarity to its study and practice. It argues that the accepted categorisation of international and external self-determination is not helpful, and suggests a new typology. This new framework has four categories: polity-based, identitarian, colonial, and remedial forms. Each will be distinguished by the grounds, or the legitimacy-claim, on which they are based. This not only ensures consistency, it moves the question out of the purely conceptual realm and addresses the practical concerns of those invoking self-determination. By presenting international lawyers with a typology that is both theoretically consistent and more practically useful, the author makes a significant contribution to our understanding of this keystone of international law."-- Provided by publisher.

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"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"--

Self-determination, National. --- Self-determination, National --- Sovereignty. --- Biopolitics. --- Exceptionalism. --- Philosophy..

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"With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples - notably Japan and Quebec - Date, Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system. Small nations, by their very nature, raise significant questions about what a nation is. Some small nations are sovereign states with relatively small populations and limited territory, others are nations within larger sovereign states, with distinctive cultures, governance structures, or other features that differentiate them from their "parent" state. By focussing on non-European nations in particular, the contributors to this volume challenge our conceptions of what a small nation is and how it operates within the international system. They focus in particular on the nation-within-a-nation-state of Quebec and on Japan, supplemented by further examples from East Asia. By interrogating what these examples have to show us about the typology and character of small nations, they offer a critique of superpower and draw out the potential of small nation studies. A valuable resource for students and scholars of international relations and theories of the nation and nation state"--

States, Small --- Self-determination, National --- Globalization --- Study and teaching.

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Die Volksabstimmung von 1921 über die staatliche Zugehörigkeit Oberschlesiens bildete den Höhepunkt, aber nicht den Abschluss eines jahrelangen, mit Waffen und Propaganda geführten Kampfes um die Gunst der Oberschlesier, der auch geopolitische Interessen der Alliierten einschloss. Vorausgegangen war der Zusammenbruch der alten Ordnung in Europa infolge des Ersten Weltkrieges. Neue, auf nationalen Ideen basierende Staaten entstanden auf den Trümmern der multinationalen Imperien. Dort aber, wo die Bevölkerung ethnisch heterogen zusammengesetzt war, kam es zu regionalen Konflikten um Land, staatliche Zugehörigkeit und nationale Identität. So auch in Oberschlesien. Die in weiten Teilen national indifferente Bevölkerung musste sich nun zwischen Deutschland und Polen entscheiden.

Geopolitics. --- Political geography. --- Germany --- History --- Self-determination, National.