The Confused Compass: From Self-determination to State-determination
@article{Abulof2015TheCC, title={The Confused Compass: From Self-determination to State-determination}, author={Uriel Abulof}, journal={Ethnopolitics}, year={2015}, volume={14}, pages={488 - 497} }
Abstract Self-determination, a prime justificatory principle of the international society, has become a confused, and confusing, compass. At the heart of this confusion, I argue, lies the tacit submersion of self-determination in state-determination. In principle, self-determination entails the ‘moral double helix' of duality (personal right to align with a people, and the people’s right to determine their politics) and mutuality (the right is as much the other’s as the self’s). In practice…
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