Is a Theory of Self-determination Possible

Bibliographic Data

ID12891731
AuthorsMichael Keating (0000-0002-4008-9893, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume18
Issue3
Pages315-323
Publication date2019-03-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9057 • E-ISSN: 1744-9065
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449057.2019.1585093
OpenAlexW2924685844
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

The doctrine of self-determination has been problematic because of the difficulties in specifying the subject, which is classically the nation or people and the object, which is traditionally a territorially delimited sovereign state. Modern understandings in some ways make the problem more difficult. It is widely accepted that the nation is socially constructed and contested. The state is undergoing transformations and can no longer easily be defined. Territory is also seen as socially constructed and as much of a sociological as a topological concept. Yet these new understandings also open up new perspectives and ways to reconciling nation, state and territory. Post-sovereign perspectives provide new ways of framing the relationships. Yet, in spite of its elusive nature, claims to sovereignty recur. This is because nationality claims are ontological as well as normative and the surest way of demonstrating that a people is a nation is to assert its sovereignty

Doctrine · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Immigration · Law and economics · Nation state · Nationality · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Subject (documents · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Philosophy · Political Systems and Governance · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics

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