Knop K. Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law

Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 460 p. — (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law). — ISBN: 0521781787, 0521067405When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In an original perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyzes the ways that many of the groups that the right of self-determination most affects-including colonies, ethnic nations, indigenous peoples and women-have been marginalized in its interpretation. Her analysis also reveals that key cases have grappled with this problem of diversity. Challenges by marginalized groups to the culture or gender biases of international law emerge as integral to the cases, as do attempts to meet these challenges.Acknowledgments page
Table of cases
Table of treatiesSelf-determination in post-Cold War international legal literature
The question of norm-type
Interpretation and identity
Pandemonium, interpretation and participation
Self-determination interpreted in practice: the challenge of culture
The canon of self-determination
Developing texts
Self-determination interpreted in practice: the challenge of gender
Women and self-determination in Europe after World War I
Indigenous women and self-determinationPatterns
Promise