• DOI:10.1080/17449057.2015.1051809
Corpus ID: 142202032

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}
}

Uriel Abulof

Published 2015

Sociology

Ethnopolitics

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… CONTINUE READING

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