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

Sovereignty in the Exercise of the Right to Self-Determination detangles the relationship between a number of principles of international law and the exercise o

The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination. Outside of the deco

Although most international lawyers assumed that the distribution of the land surface of the earth between States was more or less final after the end of decolo

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