This book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples.

The self-determination of peoples is a major issue in the world community: both radical and subversive, it serves to grant statehood to oppressed peoples, but a

Focusing especially on the era since the Cold War, political scientists, other scholars, and government officials examine both empirically and conceptually the

In this book, leading scholars re-examine the principle of national self-determination from diverse theoretical perspectives.

The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation, and the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Friendly Relations Declaration, whic