1st Edition

Self-Determination in the early Twenty First Century A Double Edged Concept

Edited By Uriel Abulof, Karl Cordell Copyright 2016
144 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

In a world in which change is constant, the principle of self-determination is important. Through (collective) acts of self-determination, nations exercise the right to govern themselves. At present the nation-state system with which we are familiar faces several challenges. In Western Europe, sub-state nationalism is on the rise. In the Middle East and North Africa, the state system bequeathed... Read more

1. Introduction  Karl Cordell

Self-determination and the End of History

2. The Daily Plebiscite as 21st-Century Reality  Aviel Roshwald

3. Paradoxes of violence and self-determination  Matthew Anthony Evangelista

4. From Independent Statehood to Minority Rights: The Evolution of National Self-determination as an International Order Principle in the Post-State Formation Era  Oded Haklai

The Dangers of Self-Determination

5. Self-determination: The Democratization Test Amitai Etzioni

6. Self-determination as a Technology of Imperialism: The Soviet and Russian Experiences Mark R. Beissinger

7. The Confused Compass: From Self-determination to State-determination Uriel Abulof

Self-Determination and the Politics of Identity

8. The Right to Self-determination as a Claim to Independence in International Practice  Mikulas Fabry

9. Constructing Identity through Symbols by Groups Demanding Self-determination: Bosnian Serbs and Iraqi Kurds Zeynep Kaya and Outi Keranen

10. The Social Bases of Support for Self-determination in East Ukraine Elise Giuliano

11. Self-determination and Majority–Minority Relations in Deeply Divided Societies: Towards a Comparative Analytical Framework Ilan Peleg

Self-determining the State

12. Stateness, National Self-determination and War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century Benjamin Miller

13. Self-determination in the Twenty-first Century Montserrat Guibernau

14. A Brief History of Self-determination Referendums Before 1920  Matt Qvortrup

15. Conclusion: In Search of a Common Ground Between Self-determination and Grand Strategy Wolfgang Danspeckgruber and Uriel Abulof

Biography

Karl Cordell is Professor of Politics at Plymouth University UK. He has numerous publications in the fields of German politics, German-Polish relations and the politics of nationalism and ethnicity. He is also co-editor of the journals Civil Wars and Ethnopolitics.

Uriel Abulof is an assistant professor of Politics at Tel-Aviv University and a senior research fellow at Princeton University’s LISD / Woodrow Wilson School. He studies political legitimation and violence, focusing on nationalism, democratization, revolutions and ethnic conflicts. Abulof's first book Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (Haifa University Press) received Israel’s best academic book award, and he recently completed his second book, The Mortality and Morality of Nations (Cambridge University Press).