Overview
This book examines the international discourse on ‘self-determination’
Reveals a battle between two ideas of freedom – a ‘liberal-conservative’ idea of freedom, and a ‘radical’ idea of freedom
Proposes a reconceptualization of the meaning of freedom in international affairs, and a recategorisation of the overarching international ideational trends of the last century
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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“From the battle between V.I. Lenin and Woodrow Wilson after World War I to contemporary debates over the fate of Kosovo and other states in the making, the idea of “self-determination” has been as elusive as it is powerful. Which “self" is involved, and what does “determination" imply? Rita Augestad Knudsen’s study of its trajectory is unprecedented not merely in its chronology leading almost up to our own times, but in its conceptual depth and subtlety, reminding us that the meaning of concepts emerges and evolves at pivotal moments in their history.”
– Samuel Moyn, Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School, Professor of History, Yale University, New Haven, USA“This highly original book combines a history of events (“moments”) with conceptual history. Augestad Knudsen elaborates two concepts of freedom underlying calls for national self-determination proclaimed by Lenin and Woodrow Wilson in 1917-18. These two concepts then enable analysis of key moments in international relations extending from 1918 to the question of Kosovan independence in 2008-10. With meticulous scholarship Augestad Knudsen shows how these concepts competed, overlapped, and combined. This is a significant contribution to understanding the politics and international law of a century: the century of national self-determination.”
– John Breuilly, Emeritus Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UKAuthors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Fight Over Freedom in 20th- and 21st-Century International Discourse
Book Subtitle: Moments of ‘self-determination’
Authors: Rita Augestad Knudsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46429-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46428-8Published: 02 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46431-8Published: 02 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46429-5Published: 01 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 241
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History, general, International Relations Theory, International Relations, Political History, Political Science, International Organization