The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples: The Domestication of an Illusion (Human Rights in History)
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The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples: The Domestication of an Illusion (Human Rights in History)
The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples: The Domestication of an Illusion (Human Rights in History)

The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples: The Domestication of an Illusion (Human Rights in History)

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Joerg Fisch (Author) Anita Mage (Contributor)  

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The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. Covering both the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century independence movements in the Americas and the twentieth-century decolonization worldwide, this book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples. It addresses the political contexts in which the right and concept were formulated and the practices developed to restrain its potentially anarchic character, its inception in anti-colonialism, nationalism, and the labor movement, its instrumentalization at the end of the First World War in a formidable duel that Wilson lost to Lenin, its abuse by Hitler, the path after the Second World War to its recognition as a human right in 1966, and its continuing impact after decolonization. 4 Tables, black and white; 8 Maps; 2 Halftones, unspecified
Joerg Fisch is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Zurich. Anita Mage is an academic translator and doctoral candidate in philosophy at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.
  • Contributor: Joerg Fisch
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781107688209
  • Number of Pages: 349
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x20mm
  • Packaged Weight: 500
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2015-12-09
  • Series: Human Rights in History
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Joerg Fisch is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Zurich. Anita Mage is an academic translator and doctoral candidate in philosophy at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.

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