DISAPPEARING OR BEING MADE TO DISAPPEAR? RECONTEXTUALIZING THE SELF-DETERMINATION PRINCIPLE THROUGH THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Despite the predictions of the decline in power of national states, the chang-ing notion of sovereignty, and the idea that nations and nationalism have al-ready accomplished their historical role, demands for self-determination are not disappearing. Rather, in the wake of the Cold War and the era of globali-zation and reflexive (or post-) modernization, they are being made to disap-pear. Using the Chechen and Palestinian cases as examples, we demonstrate how the global war on terror served as a means for re-contextualization of national aspirations and demands for self-determination by presenting them as ‘acts of terror’ that endangered the entire civilized world. The paper de-tails the construction of this discourse and its institutionalization through the relations between the USA and its allies, Russia and Israel, until it impeded the possibility for peace on the basis of self-determination realization.
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Uri Ben-Eliezer
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