Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law / / Miriam Bak McKenna.

• Superior document: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2022
• VerfasserIn: McKenna, Miriam Bak,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Copyright page / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Acknowledgements / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Table of Cases / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Introduction / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Chapter 1 Self-Determination: Hierarchies of Empire / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Chapter 2 Renegotiating Sovereignty in the Interwar Period / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Chapter 3 “One World” - Anticolonialism at the UN / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Chapter 4 Remaking the World after Empire / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Chapter 5 Sovereignty and Self-Determination at the End of History / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Epilogue Contesting Sovereignty / Miriam Bak McKenna -- References / Miriam Bak McKenna -- Index / Miriam Bak McKenna.