Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law

Author: Miriam Bak Mckenna
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004478589
Published In: December 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The book adopts a new approach to self-determination's international legal history, tracing the ways in which various actors have sought to reinvent self-determination in different juridical, political, and economic iterations to create the conditions for global transformation. The value of the book's approach lies not only in a more nuanced understanding of self-determination's legal history, but in excavating the multiple ways in which actors, particularly those from the Global South, have challenged the existing normative and legal structures which rendered them unequal under the European system of international law. Rethinking this process touches on issues that are relevant not only to debates about the enduring legacy of imperialism in our present, but also to contemporary discussions of the position self-determination has come to occupy in international law.

Acknowledgements

Table of Cases

Introduction

Recovering Self-Determination's History

An Aperture for Worldmaking

Organisation of the Book

Approach

1: Self-Determination: Between Hierarchy and Equality

Sovereignty and Empire

Popular Sovereignty and the Age of Revolution

National Self-Determination, Imperial Expansion and the Civilizing Mission

2: Renegotiating Sovereignty in the Interwar Period