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The 110 pages that link to Self-determination, each with the reason it gives.
NationalismRelated: It gives political expression to nationalist demands for self-government.
SovereigntyRelated: It grounds many claims to sovereign statehood and political autonomy.
National identityRelated: National identity can support claims that a people merits political autonomy.
Ethnic nationalismRelated: Ethnic national movements often invoke it to justify autonomy or statehood.
Indigenous land rightsRelated: Control over territory can be essential to exercising collective self-determination.
AnschlussRelated: Nazi propaganda invoked popular unity, while coercion and the controlled vote undermined claims of free choice.
Popular sovereigntyRelated: It extends the idea of collective political authority to peoples seeking autonomy or independence.
Indigenous sovereigntyNarrower topic: Indigenous sovereignty is a particular expression of this broader political principle.
Treaty of TrianonCompared with: The treaty's borders often reflected strategic decisions rather than consistent application of this principle.
Paris Peace ConferenceRelated: It shaped claims at Paris but was applied selectively across the settlement.
SecessionRelated: Movements for secession often invoke this principle to justify independent political status.
Minority rightsRelated: It informs minority claims to meaningful participation and autonomy, while not automatically granting secession.
Anti-imperialismRelated: It supplies a central political claim against rule imposed by an imperial power.
AutonomyRelated: It extends self-rule from individual choices to collective political claims.
Nation-stateRelated: It has justified movements to create states aligned with national communities.
Sykes–Picot AgreementCompared with: It stood in tension with the agreement’s allocation of authority by imperial powers.
Atlantic CharterRelated: The Charter invoked peoples’ right to choose their government, though its application to colonies remained contested.
Territorial integrityCompared with: Claims to self-determination can conflict with a state's claim to preserve its territory.
Giuseppe MazziniRelated: Mazzini argued that Italians should free themselves from foreign rule and choose their national future.
Breakup of YugoslaviaRelated: Conflicting claims about which populations constituted a people shaped arguments over independence.
PatriotismRelated: Patriotic movements have often mobilized support for a people’s right to govern itself.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesRelated: Article 3 makes this a foundational right of Indigenous peoples.
Western Sahara conflictRelated: The Polisario Front invokes this principle to demand a referendum including independence.
NationRelated: National movements have used it to claim autonomy, independence, or a change of borders.
International recognitionRelated: Claims to recognition often invoke self-determination, while states weigh it against other legal principles.
Customary lawRelated: Recognition of customary law can support Indigenous authority and self-governance.
Fourteen PointsRelated: Wilson invoked national claims, though the points applied the principle unevenly.
Indigenous data sovereigntyRelated: Data governance is one practical expression of Indigenous self-determination.
Serbian nationalismNarrower topic: Serbian national claims often invoked this principle, while disputes concerned who counted as the relevant people.
Polisario FrontRelated: The movement invokes this principle to justify a choice over Western Sahara’s status.
Doctrine of discoveryCompared with: It conflicts with colonial claims that displaced Indigenous peoples’ authority without their consent.
IrredentismRelated: Irredentist movements may invoke self-determination to justify joining a neighboring state.
AnnexationRelated: An annexation imposed without consent conflicts with a people’s claim to choose its political status.
Anti-colonialismRelated: It supplied a central claim for demands to end colonial rule.
Madrid AccordsRelated: The accords transferred administration without giving Sahrawis a direct decision on sovereignty.
Scottish independenceNarrower topic: It supplies a broad political principle used to justify Scotland’s right to choose its status.
AssimilationismCompared with: It places authority over cultural continuity with the subordinated group rather than the dominant state.
SeparatismRelated: Separatists invoke it to argue that a community should choose its own statehood.
Catalan independence movementRelated: Independence advocates invoke it, while opponents dispute its application to Catalonia.
Indigenous rightsBroader topic: It is the central principle connecting political autonomy with Indigenous rights.
One-state solutionNarrower topic: The central challenge is reconciling two peoples' claims to self-determination within one state.
Proletarian internationalismCompared with: Movements must reconcile workers’ cross-border unity with peoples’ claims to national autonomy.
Western SaharaNarrower topic: The UN frames Western Sahara’s decolonization around this principle.
KashmirRelated: Arguments over Kashmiri political choice invoke this principle, though they disagree on who constitutes the relevant people.
South Sudanese independenceNarrower topic: The referendum applied this principle to Southern Sudan’s political status.
Croatian nationalismNarrower topic: It supplies the general political principle behind Croatian claims to autonomy and independence.
Ethnic federalismRelated: Claims to ethnic self-government often draw on the broader principle of self-determination.
Sahrawi peopleNarrower topic: It is the central international principle invoked in Sahrawi claims over Western Sahara.
Tibetan sovereignty debateRelated: Tibetan advocates invoke it, while its application depends on contested questions of peoplehood and sovereignty.
American imperialismCompared with: The principle exposed the tension between U.S. claims of liberty and colonial rule.