States and self-determination

Mohammad Shahabuddin

Chapter 24 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 277-288 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The mainstream discourse on statehood in international law is dominated by Eurocentrism, wherein the European experience of the historical development of states is flatly assumed as universal. In contrast, the engagement with the concepts of states and self-determination in this chapter is informed by TWAIL insights on postcolonial states as a distinct category and also on non-state actors, which are often the victims of the oppression by the postcolonial state itself. These TWAIL insights reveal how the ‘territorial’ and ‘ideological’ making of the postcolonial state through international law shaped the right to self-determination to the disadvantage of minorities.

Keywords: Decolonisation; Postcolonial states; Self-determination; Colonial boundaries; Uti possidetis; Liberalism; Individualism; Minorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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