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C/P/427. Self-determination in legal, political and historical context

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2011
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The paper looks at the political, historical and legal aspects of self-determination discussing the principles of self-determination of peoples and considering nations’ claims to self-determination in the context of international legal history. With references to International law on self-determination including the Declaration on the Granting of Independence of Colonial Countries and Peoples of 1960, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1996, etc. The concept of self-determination is compared to the concepts of sovereignty and intervention.

 

KEYWORDS: Self-determination, international legal history, sovereignty, intervention,