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Political Strategic Direction for the Codification of the International Legal Peremptory Norm of “Self‐Determination”

Managerial Law

ISSN: 0309-0558

Article publication date: 1 June 2005

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Since the disintegration of Cold War international systemic bipolarity in 1989, the international community has witnessed the entrance of at least 30 new states, proclaiming their formal sovereignty by obtaining membership in the United Nations. As with the previous wave of UN membership enlargement following decolonization three decades earlier, this most recent burst of accessions reflected inter alia the power of nationalism to change the domestic and international political status quo. In some cases, horrendous violence at times approaching genocidal levels has accompanied these changes. Of ten boundaries among these new states remain under intense dispute. This persistence and intensification of movements for national self‐determination require that the prerequisites for a successful international strategy for peacefully regulating this type of change include accommodation of sovereign self‐determination for “aspiring” nations.

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DeDominicis, B.E. (2005), "Political Strategic Direction for the Codification of the International Legal Peremptory Norm of “Self‐Determination”", Managerial Law, Vol. 47 No. 3/4, pp. 97-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090550510771566

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