Subject: Political Science Book Title: National Self-Determination and Secession
National Self-Determination and Secession
Moore, Margaret
(Editor), Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Waterloo
Print publication date: 1998
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829384-2
doi:10.1093/0198293844.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829384-2
doi:10.1093/0198293844.001.0001
Abstract:
National Self-determination and Secession brings together a number of original essays by leading figures in the field on the ethics of secession. It examines such questions as: When is secession justified? What is a people and what gives them a right to secede? Is national self-determination compatible with liberal and democratic principles? It offers fresh insight into debates about contested territory, the problem of minorities, and the place of secession in resolving national conflicts.
Keywords: conflict, democracy, ethics, liberalism, minorities, national self-determination, secession, territorial rights
Keywords: conflict, democracy, ethics, liberalism, minorities, national self-determination, secession, territorial rights
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Self-Determination Principle and the Ethics of Secession
2. Democracy and Secession
3. The Ethics of Secession as the Regulation of Secessionist Politics
4. Secession and the Principle of Nationality
5. Self-Determination in Practice
6. Liberal Nationalism and Secession
7. The Territorial Dimension of Self-Determination
8. National Self-Determination: Some Cautionary Remarks Concerning the Rhetoric of Rights
9. Self-Determination: Politics, Philosophy, and Law
10. ‘Orphans of Secession’: National Pluralism in Secessionist Regions and Post-Secession States
11. Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Nationalism
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0198293844.001.0001
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