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The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. Covering both the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century independence movements in the Americas and the twentieth-century decolonization worldwide, this book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples. It addresses the political contexts in which the right and concept were formulated and the practices developed to restrain its potentially anarchic character, its inception in anti-colonialism, nationalism, and the labor movement, its instrumentalization at the end of the First World War in a formidable duel that Wilson lost to Lenin, its abuse by Hitler, the path after the Second World War to its recognition as a human right in 1966, and its continuing impact after decolonization.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: Jallad
• Subtitle: Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia
• Author: Tasneem Khalil
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9780745335704
• ISBN: 0745335705
• ID: 09292254
• Publisher: PLUTO PRESS
• Weight: 226 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 215 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. December 2015

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