TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tomuschat,Christian
TI  - Modern Law of Self-Determination
T2  - Developments in International Law
SN  - 9789004635104
AV  - JX4054 
U1  - 320.1/5 23
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill | Nijhoff
KW  - Right of peoples to self-determination
KW  - Self-determination, National
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Editor: Christian Tomuschat -- Foreword; Christian Tomuschat -- Contributors; Editor: Christian Tomuschat -- Self-Determination in a Post-Colonial World; Christian Tomuschat -- The Issue of a Right of Secession - Reconsidered; Dietrich Murswiek -- The Right of Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples; Gudmundur Alfredsson -- Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples; Douglas Sanders -- A “Federal” Right of Self-Determination?; Otto Kimminich -- The Democratic or Internal Aspect of Self-Determination with Some Remarks on Federalism; Patrick Thornberry -- In Search of Constructive Alternatives to Secession; Asbjørn Eide -- Self-Determination - Absolute Right or Social Poetry?; Philip Allott -- Self-Determination as a Limit to Obligations under International Law; Jochen A. Frowein -- Internal Self-Determination; Allan Rosas -- Internal Aspects of the Right to Self-Determination: Towards a Democratic Legitimacy Principle?; Jean Salmon -- Annex; Editor: Christian Tomuschat -- Bibliography; Editor: Christian Tomuschat -- Developments in International Law; Editor: Christian Tomuschat
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004635104
ER  -