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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.
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.
Atlantic CharterRelated: The Charter invoked peoples’ right to choose their government, though its application to colonies remained contested.
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.
Polisario FrontRelated: The movement invokes this principle to justify a choice over Western Sahara’s status.
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.
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.
KashmirRelated: Arguments over Kashmiri political choice invoke this principle, though they disagree on who constitutes the relevant people.
Ethnic federalismRelated: Claims to ethnic self-government often draw on the broader principle of self-determination.
Tibetan sovereignty debateRelated: Tibetan advocates invoke it, while its application depends on contested questions of peoplehood and sovereignty.
Portuguese decolonizationRelated: Independence movements invoked this principle against Portugal’s claim to permanent sovereignty.
Baltic WayRelated: Participants asserted the Baltic peoples' right to decide their political future.
Dollar diplomacyRelated: Foreign financial control raised questions about whether debtor nations could exercise genuine sovereignty.
Sovereign stateRelated: It grounds many claims to independent statehood and decolonization.
Soviet nationalities policyRelated: It was a stated ideal whose meaning Soviet leaders limited in practice.
Western Sahara WarRelated: It frames the competing claims about whether the territory’s future requires a choice on independence.
1995 Constitution of EthiopiaRelated: The constitution grounds regional autonomy and secession rights in collective self-determination.
Addis Ababa AgreementRelated: The 1972 settlement granted regional self-government without providing a referendum on independence.
EnosisRelated: Enosis invoked self-determination, while opponents disputed whose wishes should decide Cyprus’s future.
French overseas collectivityRelated: Autonomy arrangements can coexist with political debates about a territory's future status.
National liberation movementRelated: It frames independence as a political right rather than merely a military outcome.
Pan-nationalismRelated: Pan-national movements invoke it when demanding collective sovereignty across borders.
Territorial disputeRelated: It can conflict with a state's claim to preserve its existing territorial boundaries.
Azad KashmirRelated: It underlies rival arguments about the future political status of Kashmir.
British Indian Ocean TerritoryRelated: It underlies arguments about Mauritius’s sovereignty and Chagossian political rights.
National liberationRelated: It supplies the central political claim that a people should govern itself.