Self-Determination Beyond Liberal Legalism
Ethics, Law, and the Politics of Justice
Self-Determination Beyond Liberal Legalism
Ethics, Law, and the Politics of Justice
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Anna Irene Baka challenges dominant liberal and legalist paradigms in international law by reinterpreting the right of peoples to self-determination through the lenses of Aristotelian philosophy, phenomenology, social psychology, and corrective justice.
Focusing on high-profile postcolonial conflicts in Kosovo, Cyprus, and Palestine, Baka argues that abstract international and constitutional legal doctrines on self-determination fail to account for the lived realities of collective deprivation and historical trauma. Baka offers a compelling critique not only of mainstream theories of self-determination, but also of the shortcomings of critical movements such as Critical Legal Studies. In their place, she advances a renewed ethical and conceptual framework for international law-one grounded in responsibility, rational judgment, and moral engagement. This interdisciplinary method brings fresh insight into questions of collective identity, legitimacy, and the moral accountability of law itself. Ultimately suggesting that meaningful responses to historical injustice require international jurists to cultivate intellectual independence and legal virtue, this is a timely and essential contribution for scholars and practitioners of international law, human rights, legal philosophy, and global justice.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Self-Determination from the Scope of Law: The Closed System Approach and its Anomalies
Chapter 2: Breaking Barriers: From a Closed to an Open-System Approach to Legal Reasoning
Chapter 3: Expanding Induction: The Rational
Chapter 4: Expanding Induction: The Psychological
Chapter 5: Expanding Induction: The Empirical
Chapter 6: Expanding Induction: The Moral (and the Reconstruction of the Legal Syllogism)
Conclusion: Corrective Justice and the Future of International Law
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About the Author
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| Published | 08 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781978771130 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 1 table |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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