Deconstructing Self-Determination in International Law

Sovereignty, Exception, and Biopolitics
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54113-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 502 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 983 g

Reihe: Developments in International Law

The right of peoples to self-determination seems well-settled and covered extensively in the scholarly record. Yet old Trotsky’s question – of whom is this right and to what? – haunts the self-determination literature. Somehow almost every work on it begins with an expression of puzzlement. This right turns out to be elusive, underdefined in its scope and content, paradoxical in almost every aspect. This book mobilises all powers of critical legal theory and modern philosophy to take the bull by its horns. Instead of ironing out the paradoxes, it aims to finally give them a proper explanation based on the concept of exception.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tacik, Przemyslaw

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Über Autor(innen)

Przemyslaw Tacik, Dr. phil. (2014), Dr. iur (2016), Jagiellonian University in Kraków, is Assistant Professor at that university and Director of Nomos: Centre for International Research on Law, Culture and Power. He has published extensively on law and philosophy, including A New Philosophy of Modernity and Sovereignty. Towards Radical Historicisation (Bloomsbury 2021).