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Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2000

Anthems and the Making of Nation States, 2016

ПРАВО и јавне делатности : liber amicorum Јовицa Тркуљa, 2024

The right of self-determination is in unilateral declarations primarily used to legitimize the cr... more The right of self-determination is in unilateral declarations primarily used to legitimize the creation of new independent states. In these declarations it is assumed that the nation or people poised to achieve independence is well-determined and is a holder of that right. The paper outlines several historical uses of this right in the unilateral/consensual declaration of independence starting with the declaration of independence of Finland in 1917 and ending with the declarations of Catalunya and of Ambazonia (former British South Cameroon) in 2017. The use of this legitimizing device leads neither to factual independence nor to international recognition of a new state.

Nijhoff international philosophy series, 1988

Preface.- Solution of the Staccato Version of the Achilles Paradox.- Pacifism: Is Its Moral Found... more Preface.- Solution of the Staccato Version of the Achilles Paradox.- Pacifism: Is Its Moral Foundation Possible or Needed ?.- The Role of General Terms in Singling Out the Referent of a Demonstrative.- Philosophy and Pain Research.- A Defence of Rights-Duties Correlativism.- Scientific Discovery: Is It a Legitimate Subject for the Philosopher of Science ?.- Hegel and Logic.- Temporal Modalities and Modal Tense Operators.- Causal Propositions and Essential Properties.- Internalism and Intentionality.- Scientific Persuasion.- Is the Evil Daemon a Sceptical Device ?.- Why Wont Syntactic Naturalization of Belief do?.- An Argument Against Theism.- A Relativistic Criticism of Realism.- Deliberation, Practical Wisdom and the Self in the Nicomachean Ethics.- A Select Bibliography of Yugoslav Analytic Philosophy.

Routledge eBooks, Jan 13, 2023

Could the saving of innocent lives justify killing other people who are not threatening anyone, t... more Could the saving of innocent lives justify killing other people who are not threatening anyone, that is, who are equally innocent? And if so, how could saving innocent lives justify acts of war, which involve killing people who are not threatening anyone?24 page(s

Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, 1992

Dartmouth Publishing Company eBooks, 1995

Nationalism - the last rites?, Ross Poole nationalism and economic development in 19th-century Eu... more Nationalism - the last rites?, Ross Poole nationalism and economic development in 19th-century Europe, Frank B. Tipton competing ideas of the "self" in Russian self-determination, past and present, Adrian Jones Marat Durdyiev and Turkmen nationalism, David Christian constitutional nationalism, citizenship and hope for civil society in Eastern Europe, Adam Czarnota national minorities and security in central Europe - the Hungarian experience, Fedor Mediansky intellectual dissidence and the Serb national question, Aleksandar Pavkovic secessionist self-determination - the cases of Slovenia and Croatia, Peter Radan long distance nationalism? Second generation Croatians and Slovenians in Australia, Zlatko Skrbis.

East European Monographs , Distributed by Columbia University Press eBooks, 1993

This is a critical assessment of the political thought of the Yugoslav historian and statesman.

Melbourne Journal of International Law, 2002

Book Reviews This first book-length study of the international legal aspects of the dissolution o... more Book Reviews This first book-length study of the international legal aspects of the dissolution of the Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia offers more than its title promises. In the first chapter, Radan distinguishes what he calls the 'classical theory' of self-determination from the 'romantic theory': the former defines the subject of self-determination in terms of the territory which a group inhabits, while the latter defines it, roughly speaking, in terms of a group's cultural and ethnic traits. 1 For the latter, the group that should 'determine itself' is a national one, defined in terms of its ethnicity and culture. Having drawn this distinction, Radan proceeds, in chapter 2, to examine the use of the term 'people' in various international legal-mostly United Nations-documents regarding the selfdetermination of peoples. He concludes that in these documents the term 'people' is not restricted to the use prescribed by the classical theory of selfdetermination: the reference of the term 'people', in the frequently recurring phrase 'the self-determination of peoples', is not and cannot be restricted to 'the total population of a political unit.' 2 The term 'people', Radan argues, canand in practice, does-encompass nations or national groups. While noting that neither the texts of various UN documents nor their travaux preparatoires can offer a conclusive interpretation of this term, he lists a large number of instances in which these documents refer to a number of 'peoples' inhabiting a single territory. He points out that in the great majority of these, the term can be, without any difficulty, understood to refer to nations. The rival interpretation, propounded by Antonio Cassesse, 3 according to which 'people' refers to the entire population of a single state or colonial territory, Radan claims, is not only unsubstantiated but also inconsistent. 4 The rival interpretation grants the right of secession to 'a people' but denies the status of 'people' to any group within a particular state. From this it follows that a people would have only the right to secede from itself. The contrary view, that 'peoples' include national groups within a single state, does not, however, imply that any national group within a single territorial unit or state would have the right to secession. Citing a variety of UN documents, Radan argues that a national group has the right to secede only when it is denied the right of internal self-determination in the state which it inhabits. The romantic theory of self-determination, at least its international law version, does not countenance an uncontrolled proliferation of states.