This book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples.

Presents the legal cases for self-determination in East Timor, Kosovo, Chechnya, Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and in South Sudan.

Sovereignty in the Exercise of the Right to Self-Determination detangles the relationship between a number of principles of international law and the exercise o

In this book, leading scholars re-examine the principle of national self-determination from diverse theoretical perspectives.

Although most international lawyers assumed that the distribution of the land surface of the earth between States was more or less final after the end of decolo