Deconstructing self-determination in international law : sovereignty, exception, and biopolitics /

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Author / Creator:Tacik, Przemysław, 1985- author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Nijhoff, ©2023.
Description:xii, 502 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Developments in international law, 0924-5332 ; volume 78
Developments in international law ; 78.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13302819
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ISBN:9789004541139
9004541136
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [445]-496) and index.
Summary:"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"--