Table of Contents

1. Introduction Karl Cordell Self-determination and the End of History 2. The Daily Plebiscite as 21st-Century Reality Aviel Roshwald 3. Paradoxes of violence and self-determination Matthew Anthony Evangelista 4. From Independent Statehood to Minority Rights: The Evolution of National Self-determination as an International Order Principle in the Post-State Formation Era Oded Haklai The Dangers of Self-Determination 5. Self-determination: The Democratization Test Amitai Etzioni 6. Self-determination as a Technology of Imperialism: The Soviet and Russian Experiences Mark R. Beissinger 7. The Confused Compass: From Self-determination to State-determination Uriel Abulof Self-Determination and the Politics of Identity 8. The Right to Self-determination as a Claim to Independence in International Practice Mikulas Fabry 9. Constructing Identity through Symbols by Groups Demanding Self-determination: Bosnian Serbs and Iraqi Kurds Zeynep Kaya and Outi Keranen 10. The Social Bases of Support for Self-determination in East Ukraine Elise Giuliano 11. Self-determination and Majority-Minority Relations in Deeply Divided Societies: Towards a Comparative Analytical Framework Ilan Peleg Self-determining the State 12. Stateness, National Self-determination and War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century Benjamin Miller 13. Self-determination in the Twenty-first Century Montserrat Guibernau 14. A Brief History of Self-determination Referendums Before 1920 Matt Qvortrup 15. Conclusion: In Search of a Common Ground Between Self-determination and Grand Strategy Wolfgang Danspeckgruber and Uriel Abulof

About the Author

Karl Cordell is Professor of Politics at Plymouth University UK. He has numerous publications in the fields of German politics, German-Polish relations and the politics of nationalism and ethnicity. He is also co-editor of the journals Civil Wars and Ethnopolitics. Uriel Abulof is an assistant professor of Politics at Tel-Aviv University and a senior research fellow at Princeton University's LISD / Woodrow Wilson School. He studies political legitimation and violence, focusing on nationalism, democratization, revolutions and ethnic conflicts. Abulof's first book Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (Haifa University Press) received Israel's best academic book award, and he recently completed his second book, The Mortality and Morality of Nations (Cambridge University Press).