9. Self-Determination: Politics, Philosophy, and Law

Author: Horowitz, Donald L.

Source: National Self-Determination and Secession, October 1998 , pp. 181-215(35)

Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs

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Abstract:

This chapter examines the empirical complexities of territorially based ethnic separation (boundaries) against the growing philosophical justifications for self-determination. Horowitz argues that ‘clean breaks’ are not likely, not least because ethnicity itself is a contextual and therefore mutable affiliation, and argues that more attention should be paid to encourage domestic measures of interethnic accommodation.

Keywords: self-determination; national pluralism; boundaries; ethnicity; accommodation; secession; borders; affiliation

Document Type: Research article

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