Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Weitz Eric D.
    Self-Determination: How a German Enlightenment Idea Became the Slogan of National Liberation and a Human Right
    in American Historical Review , Volume 120, Issue 2, April ,  2015 ,  462-496
    No phrase has had greater political resonance in the last one hundred years than “self-determination.” No concept is as murky as self-determination. Even legal scholars, from whom one hopes to find some precision, throw up their hands in confusion and dismay. “No one is very clear as to what it [the right of self-determination] means,” writes James Crawford.1 Others are even more scathing: “Juridically, the notion of a legal ‘right’ of self-determination is nonsense—for can ex hypothesi [an] as yet juridically nonexisting entity be the possessor of a legal right?”2 Yet self-determination became and is still the favored slogan of all sorts of movements around the globe and has been written into virtually every major human rights declaration and convention since the 1940s—including the United Nations Charter, the …
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