TY - JOUR
T1 - The Confused Compass
T2 - From Self-determination to State-determination
AU - Abulof, Uriel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Editor of Ethnopolitics.
PY - 2015/10/20
Y1 - 2015/10/20
N2 - Self-determination, a prime justificatory principle of the international society, has become a confused, and confusing, compass. At the heart of this confusion, I argue, lies the tacit submersion of self-determination in state-determination. In principle, self-determination entails the ‘moral double helix' of duality (personal right to align with a people, and the people’s right to determine their politics) and mutuality (the right is as much the other’s as the self’s). In practice, state actors have labored to tame self-determination: to control and contain this perilous principle by yielding the will of ‘the people' to the interests of powerful states, which have repeatedly impaired its moral DNA.
AB - Self-determination, a prime justificatory principle of the international society, has become a confused, and confusing, compass. At the heart of this confusion, I argue, lies the tacit submersion of self-determination in state-determination. In principle, self-determination entails the ‘moral double helix' of duality (personal right to align with a people, and the people’s right to determine their politics) and mutuality (the right is as much the other’s as the self’s). In practice, state actors have labored to tame self-determination: to control and contain this perilous principle by yielding the will of ‘the people' to the interests of powerful states, which have repeatedly impaired its moral DNA.
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U2 - 10.1080/17449057.2015.1051809
DO - 10.1080/17449057.2015.1051809
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AN - SCOPUS:84939426541
SN - 1744-9057
VL - 14
SP - 488
EP - 497
JO - Ethnopolitics
JF - Ethnopolitics
IS - 5
ER -