National Self-Determination and Secession

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-829384-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

In recent years, numerous multi-national states have disintegrated along national lines, and today, many more, in both the first and the third worlds, continue to witness bitter secessionist struggles. The proliferation of national conflicts and secessionist movements has given rise to many important questions which urgently need to be addressed. When is seccession justified? What is a people and what gives them a right to secede? Is national determination consistent with liberal and democratic principles? Or is it a dangerous doctrine?

In the years following 1991, when Allen Buchanan published Secession, a number of competing theories of the ethics of secession have been put forward. This pathbreaking study, by a host of leading figures in the field, brings together for the first time a series of original essays on these theories. Offering fresh insight into debates about contested territory, the problem of minorities, and the place of secession in resolving national conflicts, this volume provides a much-needed philosophical discussion of the normative implications of nationalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Margaret Moore: Introduction: The Self-Determination Principle and the Ethics of Secession

- 2: Allen Buchanan: Democracy and Secession

- 3: Wayne Norman: The Ethics of Secession as the Regulation of Secessionist Politics

- 4: David Miller: Secession and the Principle of Nationality

- 5: Daniel Philpott: Self-Determination in Practice

- 6: Kai Nielsen: Liberal Nationalism and Secession

- 7: Margaret Moore: The Territorial Dimension of Self-Determination

- 8: Ronald S. Beiner: National Self-Determination: Some Cautionary Remarks Concerning the Rhetoric of Rights

- 9: Donald L. Horowitz: Self-Determination: Politics, Philosophy, Law

- 10: John McGarry: Orphans of Secession: National Pluralism in Secessionist Regions and Post-Secession States

- 11: Rogers Brubaker: Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Nationalism

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Moore is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She was previously employed at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Foundations of Liberalism (Clarendon Press, 1993), and numerous articles on liberalism, nationalism, and self-determination.