The Tragedy and Promise of Self-Determination

Yale Law Journal 129 (2020)
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Abstract

The principle of self-determination, like Janus, has two faces: negative and positive. Often understood as enabling the fracture of states into national components, the principle is better seen as facilitating the creation of multinational frameworks that foster toleration and human rights.

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