Diversity self determination int law

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Table of cases......Page 15
Table of treaties......Page 20
Abbreviations......Page 23
Introduction......Page 25
Approach......Page 29
Methodology......Page 40
Choice of literature......Page 41
Choice of case-studies......Page 44
PART I SELF-DETERMINATION IN POST-COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL LITERATURE......Page 51
1 The question of norm-type......Page 53
Rules and principles......Page 54
Change......Page 62
Participation......Page 65
The international community......Page 69
2 Interpretation and identity......Page 74
Colonies......Page 75
Categories and coherence......Page 77
Coherence......Page 79
Categories and coherence compared......Page 86
When does the right of self-determination entitle a people to choose independence?......Page 89
Colonialism and freely expressed will......Page 90
Corrective justice and history......Page 92
Rights, demos and ethnos......Page 97
Peace and violence......Page 110
3 Pandemonium, interpretation and participation......Page 115
Darkness visible......Page 118
On the perilous edge......Page 119
The apostate angel......Page 126
PART II SELF-DETERMINATION INTERPRETED IN PRACTICE: THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURE......Page 131
4 The canon of self-determination......Page 133
Western Sahara......Page 134
Past......Page 140
Terra Nullius......Page 144
Sovereignty and legality......Page 153
Western Sahara considered: The Dubai/Sharjah boundary arbitration......Page 174
Present......Page 182
EC Arbitration Commission Opinion No. 2 on Yugoslavia......Page 191
The opinion......Page 194
Two schools of criticism......Page 199
A new geometry of identity......Page 210
East Timor......Page 214
Rules of court......Page 216
Trusteeship......Page 218
Arguments and opinions in East Timor......Page 226
5 Developing texts......Page 236
Competing visions......Page 241
International Labour Organization......Page 247
Process......Page 249
Substance......Page 261
UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations......Page 272
Process......Page 273
Substance......Page 279
PART III SELF-DETERMINATION INTERPRETED IN PRACTICE: THE CHALLENGE OF GENDER......Page 299
6 Women and self-determination in Europe after World War I......Page 301
Plebiscites......Page 305
Women’s right to vote in the plebiscites......Page 308
Right of option......Page 333
Collective option......Page 335
7 Women and self-determination in United Nations trust territories......Page 351
Self-determination and the UN trusteeship system......Page 353
Equality and self-determination in the UN trusteeship system......Page 356
The Fon of Bikom......Page 357
Equality as promoted by the visiting missions and the administering authorities......Page 364
Equality and self-determination in the UN Commission on the Status of Women......Page 368
Petitions......Page 373
8 Indigenous women and self-determination......Page 382
Equality......Page 384
Lovelace’s arguments......Page 386
Views in Lovelace......Page 391
Conclusion......Page 397
Patterns......Page 398
Promise......Page 404
Bibliography......Page 406
Index......Page 445