Paradoxes of Violence and Self-determination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12892272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Evangelista (0000-0002-9163-0213, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 451-460 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9057 • E-ISSN: 1744-9065 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449057.2015.1051811 |
| OpenAlex | W1548958817 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Secessionist movements aspiring to statehood often resort to force if their demands are not met peacefully. Indeed a political community’s ability to maintain internal order and external defence by military means is a fundamental attribute of the nation-state. Yet international law limits the use of force to self-defence. Is non-violent secessionism, then, an oxymoron, and violent secessionism illegal? The late twentieth-century witnessed successful cases of non-violent secession—along with nearly successful ones, ones whose success we might now judge to have been short-lived, ones whose commitment to non-violence was short-lived, and ones whose efforts provoked massacres and foreign intervention. This essay reviews examples of each to identify paradoxes that emerge when movements for national self-determination depend on violence for their success. It does so in the context of Just War Theory, and particularly Michael Walzer’s influential formulation
Context (archaeology · Criminology · Economics · International community · International law · Intervention (counseling · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Secession · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Territorial integrity · Use of force · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · History · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |