Manchester University Press
1 Becoming national
Abstract
The transformation of the concept of self-determination to a principle to be applied in international politics in the first half of the twentieth century gave rise to several key practices that have shaped the field of international relations. This chapter discusses the recasting of self-determination to an instrument of international politics during the Great War and its immediate aftermath. It focusses on the Victorian underpinnings of the liberal understanding of self-determination that came to be associated with Wilsonianism and explains how the concept of self-determination became one of the key regulatory principles of international politics in the dawn of the interwar period. By focussing on Anglophone debates on national questions and the transformation of the Habsburg and, crucially, the Ottoman imperial space, this chapter assesses the application of ‘self-determination’ as a method to assuage national questions and stabilise international affairs.
Abstract
The transformation of the concept of self-determination to a principle to be applied in international politics in the first half of the twentieth century gave rise to several key practices that have shaped the field of international relations. This chapter discusses the recasting of self-determination to an instrument of international politics during the Great War and its immediate aftermath. It focusses on the Victorian underpinnings of the liberal understanding of self-determination that came to be associated with Wilsonianism and explains how the concept of self-determination became one of the key regulatory principles of international politics in the dawn of the interwar period. By focussing on Anglophone debates on national questions and the transformation of the Habsburg and, crucially, the Ottoman imperial space, this chapter assesses the application of ‘self-determination’ as a method to assuage national questions and stabilise international affairs.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Figures vi
- Contributors vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction 1
- 1 Becoming national 17
- 2 The League of Nations and the new uses of sovereignty 35
- 3 Ascertaining the truth in Albania 55
- 4 The chemical weapons discourse as an instrument of international order 81
- 5 ‘Weapons misused by barbarous races' 104
- 6 Colonial policy and international control 127
- 7 In the eyes of the world 152
- 8 The League of Nations and the advisory opinion of the Permanent Court of International Justice as ‘preventive adjudication’? 177
- 9 With or without the metropole 198
- Index 227
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Figures vi
- Contributors vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction 1
- 1 Becoming national 17
- 2 The League of Nations and the new uses of sovereignty 35
- 3 Ascertaining the truth in Albania 55
- 4 The chemical weapons discourse as an instrument of international order 81
- 5 ‘Weapons misused by barbarous races' 104
- 6 Colonial policy and international control 127
- 7 In the eyes of the world 152
- 8 The League of Nations and the advisory opinion of the Permanent Court of International Justice as ‘preventive adjudication’? 177
- 9 With or without the metropole 198
- Index 227
