Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law

Miriam Bak McKenna (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2022
Martinus Nijhoff (Verlag)
978-90-04-47858-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Miriam Bak McKenna, Ph.D, LL.M. University of Copenhagen is an Associate Professor of Law at the Institute of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Her work focusses on the theory and history of international law, drawing in particular on critical feminist and decolonial approaches to law.

Acknowledgements

Table of Cases

Introduction

1Recovering Self-Determination’s History

2An Aperture for Worldmaking

3Organisation of the Book

4Approach

1 Self-Determination: Between Hierarchy and Equality

1Sovereignty and Empire

2Popular Sovereignty and the Age of Revolution

3National Self-Determination, Imperial Expansion and the Civilizing Mission

2 Renegotiating Sovereignty in the Interwar Period

1Self-Determination as Political Strategy

2Post WWI Resettlement and “The New International Law”

3The Aaland Islands Dispute

4 Quasi-Sovereigns: The Mandate and Trusteeship System

3 “One World” - Anticolonialism at the UN

1Self-Determination and the New World Order

2Contesting Empire at the UN

3Anti-Colonial Activism

4The Colonial Declaration

5 The Boundaries of Independence

4 Remaking the World after Empire

1A New International Law

2Strengthening the Post-Colonial State

3Economic Self-Determination and the New International Economic Order

4The Human Rights Revolution and Self-Determination

5 Sovereignty and Self-Determination at the End of History

1New and Old Claims

2Adjudicating Secession

3Human Rights, Democracy and the New Standards of Sovereignty

4 Re-working Sovereignty: Minority and Indigenous Rights

Epilogue: Contesting Sovereignty

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2022
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	90-04-47858-2 / 9004478582
ISBN-13	978-90-04-47858-9 / 9789004478589
Zustand	Neuware