Modern law and self-determinationChristian Tomuschat Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 02/09/1993 - 347 من الصفحات "Modern Law of Self-Determination" examines the significance of the right to self-determination in the new world order. For decades, self-determination was seen as a right of colonial peoples. Now the decolonization process has come to an end, its scope and meaning need to be re-examined. Increasingly, the ethnic groups within established nation States claim some separate political status. In extreme cases of persecution of an ethnic group by a ruling majority, secession may provide the only viable remedy to resolve the conflict. However, international law cannot promote a general Balkanization' of the globe. The legitimate interests of all ethnic groups should be accommodated within the framework of existing States. Self-determination, which today is predominantly understood as implying a right to independent statehood, may have to be re-interpreted as conferring no more than a right to autonomy or federal statehood. Such a conception is in line with a modern tendency that highlights the necessary internal dimension of self-determination. "Modern Law of Self-Determination" is based on papers delivered at a conference in Bonn in August 1992 which have been updated and reviewed by the authors in light of the discussions following their presentation. |
المحتوى
The Issue of a Right of Secession Reconsidered | 21 |
The Right of SelfDetermination and Indigenous Peoples | 41 |
Douglas Sanders | 55 |
A Federal Right of SelfDetermination? | 83 |
The Democratic or Internal Aspect of SelfDetermination | 101 |
In Search of Constructive Alternatives to Secession | 139 |
SelfDetermination Absolute Right or Social Poetry? | 177 |
SelfDetermination as a Limit to Obligations under International Law | 211 |
Internal SelfDetermination | 225 |
Annex | 283 |
Bibliography | 327 |
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