CAS IR 573 Lecture 29: International Law - Self determination
11 May 2019
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Standard feature of any textbook of the europe and latin america because us contests the case of self-determination as international law. Self-determination is sometimes applied to an individual, key to liberalism. What an individual want, the kind of government they want. Self-determined individual who decides for themselves is the idea of a liberal world. When it comes to communities, that"s what we have in mind. The basic idea that a community should have the collective right to determine how it wants to live and what state it wants to live. The concept has travelled moral, political and legal grounds: history: middle ages: nobody cared what people wanted. The notions that people whose fate are questioned was first formulated by the genevan philosopher: jean jacques. Rousseau in response to 2 transfers of territory: sale of the island of corsica in the mediterranean from the. 1772, the first partition russia, prussian and austria divide a large portion and the polish aren"t asked.
