Deconstructing Self-Determination in International Law : : Sovereignty, Exception, and Biopolitics.

• Superior document: Developments in International Law Series ; v.78
• Author: Tacik, Przemysław.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Developments in International Law Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (518 pages)

"The right of peoples to self-determination seems well-settled and covered extensively in the scholarly record. Yet old Trotsky's question - of whom is this right and to what? - haunts the self-determination literature. Somehow almost every work on it begins with an expression of puzzlement. This right turns out to be elusive, underdefined in its scope and content, paradoxical in almost every aspect. This book mobilises all powers of critical legal theory and modern philosophy to take the bull by its horns. Instead of ironing out the paradoxes, it aims to finally give them a proper explanation based on the concept of exception"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

It is what it is not : introductory critical perspectives on the right of self-determination of peoples -- A critical genealogy of the right of nations to self-determination -- Self-determination between legal fictions and reality -- The right to self-determination as a state of exception in international law -- Paradoxes of the right of nations to self-determination : a critical reappraisal.