Abstract
This Article explores the relationship between international law, defined broadly as the principles, norms, and rules governing the international order and the aspirations for collective self-government by minority national communities. It argues that there will be increasing challenges to the current international legal rules by minority nationalists, and that it is important to develop a principled response to this challenge. It also argues that the current system privileges state actors to a great extent, and that any attempt to channel self-determination claims in a more benign, non-secessionist direction needs to address the statecentric biases of the current rules.
Recommended Citation
Margaret Moore,
Sub-State Nationalism and International Law,
25
Mich. J. Int'l L.
1319
(2004).
Available at:
https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjil/vol25/iss4/28