Reckoning with empire : self-determination in international law / Miriam Bak Mckenna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bak Mckenna, Miriam, author.

Series:

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2022

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-determination, National--History.

Self-determination, National.

International law--History.

International law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book adopts a new approach to self-determination’s international legal history, tracing the ways in which various actors have sought to reinvent self-determination in different juridical, political, and economic iterations to create the conditions for global transformation. The value of the book’s approach lies not only in a more nuanced understanding of self-determination’s legal history, but in excavating the multiple ways in which actors, particularly those from the Global South, have challenged the existing normative and legal structures which rendered them unequal under the European system of international law. Rethinking this process touches on issues that are relevant not only to debates about the enduring legacy of imperialism in our present, but also to contemporary discussions of the position self-determination has come to occupy in international law.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Miriam Bak McKenna

Copyright page / Miriam Bak McKenna

Acknowledgements / Miriam Bak McKenna

Table of Cases / Miriam Bak McKenna

Introduction / Miriam Bak McKenna

Chapter 1 Self-Determination: Hierarchies of Empire / Miriam Bak McKenna

Chapter 2 Renegotiating Sovereignty in the Interwar Period / Miriam Bak McKenna

Chapter 3 “One World” - Anticolonialism at the UN / Miriam Bak McKenna

Chapter 4 Remaking the World after Empire / Miriam Bak McKenna

Chapter 5 Sovereignty and Self-Determination at the End of History / Miriam Bak McKenna

Epilogue Contesting Sovereignty / Miriam Bak McKenna

References / Miriam Bak McKenna

Index / Miriam Bak McKenna.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004479197

9004479198

OCLC:

1355218485

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004479197 DOI