The Politics of Self-Determination: Beyond the Decolonisation Process (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) - Hardcover

Roepstorff, Kristina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415520649 ISBN 13: 9780415520645

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Since the formation of the UN in 1945 the international community has witnessed a number of violent self-determination conflicts such as the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Kashmir, and South Sudan that have been a major cause of humanitarian crises and destruction. This book examines the scope and applicability of political self-determination beyond the decolonisation process.

Explaining the historical evolution of self-determination, this book provides a theoretical examination of the concept and background. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the author analyses self-determination in relation to contemporary conflicts, which inform and drive a coherent theoretical framework for international responses to claims for self-determination. Built upon an examination of the conceptual foundations of self-determination, this book presents a new understanding and application of self-determination. It addresses the important question of whether self-determination claims legitimate armed violence, either by the self-determining group’s right to rebel, or by the international community in the form of humanitarian intervention.

The Politics of Self-Determination will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, international relations, security studies and conflict studies.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Kristina Roepstorff is a Government of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415520649
• ISBN 13: 9780415520645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208