Self-Determination in the International Legal System : : whose claim, to what right? / / Tom Sparks.

• VerfasserIn: Sparks, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, UK : : Hart Publishing,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages)

"Self-determination is, without doubt, one of the most important concepts of the international legal order, but debates still exist around what precisely it means. This book brings conceptual clarity to its study and practice. It argues that the accepted categorisation of international and external self-determination is not helpful, and suggests a new typology. This new framework has four categories: polity-based, identitarian, colonial, and remedial forms. Each will be distinguished by the grounds, or the legitimacy-claim, on which they are based. This not only ensures consistency, it moves the question out of the purely conceptual realm and addresses the practical concerns of those invoking self-determination. By presenting international lawyers with a typology that is both theoretically consistent and more practically useful, the author makes a significant contribution to our understanding of this keystone of international law."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

1. A Struggle for Self-Determination: Whose Claim, to What Right? I. Introduction II. The Self-Determination Problem III. Four Forms of Self-Determination IV. Vocabulary and Categorisation: The Forms of Self-Determination and their Interrelation V. Conclusion -- 2. Self-Determination's Origins: 1320-1920 I. A Prehistory of Self-Determination? II. Self-Determination Takes Centre Stage: 1776 and 1789 III. The Age of Revolution and the Long Nineteenth Century - 1789-1920 IV. Conclusion -- 3. Self-Determination and Decolonisation: 1920-1970 I. Imperialism and Decolonisation II. First World War Rhetoric: Lenin and Wilson on Self-Determination III. The Mandates System IV. The United Nations and the Trusteeship System V. Self-Determination in the Law of the United Nations VI. Conclusion -- 4. Judicial Treatments of Self-Determination 1945-2004 I. Courts and Self-Determination II. Advisory Opinion on Namibia (South West Africa) III. The Western Sahara Advisory Opinion IV. Badinter Arbitration Commission V. East Timor VI. Katangese Peoples' Congress v Zaire VII. Reference Re Secession of Quebec VIII. The Wall Advisory Opinion IX. Conclusion -- 5. The Kosovo Advisory Opinion I. The Advisory Opinion II. The Court's Decision III. Kosovo Applied: Russian Rhetoric and the Invasions of Ukraine IV. Conclusion -- 6. The Chagos Archipelago Advisory Opinion I. The Advisory Opinion II. Self-Determination in the Chagos Advisory Opinion III. Disambiguation: A Continuing Failure of Definition IV. Conclusion -- 7. Interregnum.