Diversity and self-determination in international law / Karen Knop.
"The emergence of new states and independence movements after the Cold War has intensified the long-standing disagreement among international lawyers over the right of self-determination, especially the right to secession. The author shifts the discussion from the articulation of the right to i...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ;
20. |
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "The emergence of new states and independence movements after the Cold War has intensified the long-standing disagreement among international lawyers over the right of self-determination, especially the right to secession. The author shifts the discussion from the articulation of the right to its interpretation. She argues that the practice of interpretation involves and illuminates a problem of diversity raised by the exclusion of many of the groups that self-determination most affects. Distinguishing different types of exclusion and the relationships between them reveals the deep structures, biases and stakes in the decisions and scholarship on self-determination. Knop's analysis also reveals that the leading cases have grappled with these imbedded inequalitites. Challenges by colonies, ethnic nations, indigenous peoples, women and others to the culture or gender biases of international law emerge as integral to the interpretation of self-determination historically, as do attempts by judges and other institutional interpreters to meet these challenges. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 434 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511040962 9780511040962 0511046111 9780511046117 0511157142 9780511157141 0511176376 9780511176371 0511494025 9780511494024 0521067405 9780521067409 1280429852 9781280429859 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511494024 |