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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 July 2009
      18 April 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511494024
      9780521781787
      9780521067409
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511494024
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.803kg, 460 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.694kg, 460 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Public International Law, Law, Human Rights, International Relations and International Organisations
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (20)
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    Subjects:
    Public International Law, Law, Human Rights, International Relations and International Organisations
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (20)
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    The emergence of new states and independence movements after the Cold War has intensified the long-standing disagreement among international lawyers over the right of self-determination, especially the right of secession. Knop shifts the discussion from the articulation of the right to its interpretation. She argues that the practice of interpretation involves and illuminates a problem of diversity raised by the exclusion of many of the groups that self-determination most affects. Distinguishing different types of exclusion and the relationships between them reveals the deep structures, biases and stakes in the decisions and scholarship on self-determination. Knop's analysis also reveals that the leading cases have grappled with these embedded inequalities. Challenges by colonies, ethnic nations, indigenous peoples, women and others to the gender and cultural biases of international law emerge as integral to the interpretation of self-determination historically, as do attempts by judges and other institutional interpreters to meet these challenges.

    Awards

    Winner of the 2003 American Society of International Law Prize

    Reviews

    Review of the hardback:'… Karen Knop presents a series of careful, yet provocative, readings of international legal texts on self-determination.'

    Fleur Johns Source: Leiden Journal of International Law

    Review of the hardback:'Knop has written a highly impressive, intelligent and sensitive study which is compulsory reading for anyone with an interest in self-determination and, more broadly, for anyone interested in seeing how international law can be used creatively yet responsibly.'

    Source: International Journal on Minority and Group Rights

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