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Self-determination and collective responsibility in the secessionist struggle

Costas Laoutides

Buch

englisch

Laoutides, Costas (Verfasser/-in) DNB

Non-state actors in interational law, politics and governance series

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Farnham

2015

255 p.

978-1-4724-3312-1

Includes bibliographical references and index.

history
case study
kurds
self-determination
secession

The often violent emergence of new independent states following the end of the Cold War generated discussion about the normative grounds of territorial separatism. A number of opposing approaches surfaced debating whether and under which circumstances there is a right for a community to secede from its host country. Overwhelmingly, these studies placed emphasis on the right to secession and neglected the moral stance of secessionist movements as agents in international relations. In this book Costas Laoutides explores the collective moral agency involved in secessionist struggles offering a theoretical model for the collective responsibility of secessionist groups. Case-studies on the Kurds and the people of Moldova-Transdniestria illustrate the author s theoretical arguments as he seeks to establish how, although the principle of self-determination was envisaged as a means of gradually bestowing political power upon the people, it never managed to realize its full potential because it was interpreted strictly within a framework of exclusionary politics of identity."

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