National Self-Determination: A Sub- and Inter-Statist Conception
- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence
- Vol. 13 (2) , 185-205
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0841820900000394
Abstract
The right of national groups to self-government should be universally conceived of in sub-statist forms. Instead of interpreting the right to national self-determination in terms of independent statehood, it should in all cases be conceived of as a package of privileges to which each national group is entitled in its main geographic location, normally within the state that coincides with its homeland. According to this sub-statist conception, self-determination is not a right of majority nations within states vis-a-vis national minorities, but rather a right of homeland groups vis-a-vis non-homeland groups. It is a right to which each national group in the world is entitled, and which must be realized in at least one place.Keywords
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