2021/2022

Сецессия. Этика самоопределения народов от Декларации Независимости США до Крыма

Статус: Общеуниверситетский факультатив

Кто читает: Школа философии и культурологии

Когда читается: 2 модуль

Охват аудитории: для всех

Преподаватели: Кашников Борис Николаевич

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course offers a substantive study of the normative aspects of self-determination and secession. The students are supposed to learn about the major theories and fact of the subject matter. The course is interdisciplinary. The students will study the historical aspects of self-determination, philosophical and normative issues. This course is based on knowledge and competences which were provided by the following disciplines: ● Philosophy. ● Political Science ● General Sociology ● History The following knowledge and competences are needed to study the discipline: ● The basic skills of philosophical analysis of international relations ● The basic knowledge of the normative theories ● The knowledge of the basics definitions in social sciences

Learning Objectives

• The major learning objectives are comprised of factual knowledge of the development of the processes of self-determination of peoples and the normative theories stemming from philosophy, ethics and international law. The students are supposed to develop adequate skills of normative analysis of the processes of secession and self-determination to be able to take part in the practical discourse on secession and to provide philosophical analysis of the ongoing conflict, war or some other outbreak of substantial violence related to self-determination.
• The students are supposed to become professed in the knowledge of the major existent theories of the philosophy of law, to develop the skills of philosophical analysis of the major issues of law.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Self-determination is related to some other values
• The analysis of the recent cases of self-determinatnion
• The clarification of the relationship between ethics and self-determination
• The controversy of the subject and object of self-determination
• The first two post war movements of self-determination. At this state we have to understand the logic and normative value of implementation
• The general idea of nationalism and its varieties
• The meaning of secession since early 1990th
• Three theories of secession
• Understanding of the concept of people and the concept of rights
• We follow the emergence of the idea of self-determination at the early stages of modernity

Course Contents

• 2. Self-determination, self-rule, autonomy, sovereignty and social choice.
• 5. Secession, war and terrorism
• 4. Self-determination in two movements
• 1. Ethics, justice and self-determination
• 3. The early historical cases of self-determination
• 8. The critique of the right of self-determination
• 6. Nationalism.
• 7. The three theories of secession
• 9. The subject and agent of self-determination.
• 10. The recent cases.

Assessment Elements

• Current control
• Research paper
• Oral examination

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 2nd module
  0.25 * Research paper + 0.25 * Current control + 0.5 * Oral examination

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Antonio José Almeida. (1999). Antonio Cassese, Self-Determination of Peoples : A Legal Reappraisal, 1995. Revue Québécoise de Droit International, 12(2), 207–212.
• Bossacoma Busquets, P. V. aut. (2020). Morality and Legality of Secession A Theory of National Self-Determination by Pau Bossacoma Busquets.
• Buchanan, A. E. (2004). Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination : Moral Foundations for International Law. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=215591
• Gellner, E. (1979). Nations and States: An Inquiry into the Origins of Nations and the Politics of Nationalism (Book). Political Studies, 27(2), 312–313.
• Juan Francisco Escudero Espinosa. (2018). Self-Determination and Humanitarian Secession in International Law of a Globalized World : Kosovo V. Crimea. Springer.
• Kohen, M. G. (2006). Secession : International Law Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
• Margaret Moore. (1998). National Self-Determination and Secession. OUP Oxford.
• Martini, C. (2011). Group agency: the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy & Economics, 4(2), 117–122. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v4i2.88
• Milena Sterio. (2012). The Right to Self-determination Under International Law : “Selfistans,” Secession, and the Rule of the Great Powers. Routledge.
• Thorsen, N. (1995). National Self-Determination: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy. By Derek Heater. (New York: St. Martin’s, 1994. ix, 225 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-312-12396-5.). https://doi.org/10.2307/2945231

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Anderson, B. R. O. (2006). Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1694834
• Christian Walter, Antje von Ungern-Sternberg, & Kavus Abushov. (2014). Self-Determination and Secession in International Law: Vol. First edition. OUP Oxford.
• Don H. Doyle. (2010). Secession As an International Phenomenon : From America’s Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements. University of Georgia Press.
• Etzioni, A. (1993). A227 - The Evils of Self-Determination.
• Faizullah Jan. (2015). The Muslim Extremist Discourse : Constructing Us Versus Them. Lexington Books.
• Felice, W. F. (2009). The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 32(2), 447.
• French, D. (2013). Statehood and Self-Determination : Reconciling Tradition and Modernity in International Law. Cambridge University Press.
• fullinwider, robert k. (2008). A Theory of Secession: The Case for Political Self-Determination - By Christopher Heath Wellman. Philosophical Books, 49(1), 83–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0149.2008.456_19.x
• G. N. Devy. (2020). Indigeneity and Nation. Routledge India.
• Gat, A., & Yakobson, A. (2013). Nations : The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism. Cambridge University Press.
• Hardin, R. (1993). Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec. By Allen Buchanan. Boulder: Westview, 1991. 174p. $38.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. American Political Science Review, 03, 761.
• International political theory after Hobbes analysis, interpretation and orientation ed. by Raia Prokhovnik, Gabriella Slomp. (2011).
• McCorquodale, R. (2007). The Creation of States in International Law. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chm041
• Miller, D. V. (DE-588)129529508, (DE-627)471013692, (DE-576)216532272, aut. (2020). Is self-determination a dangerous illusion? David Miller.
• National self-determination and secession ed. by Margaret Moore. (1998).
• Robert McKim, & Jeff McMahan. (1997). The Morality of Nationalism. Oxford University Press.
• Roepstorff, K. (2013). The Politics of Self-Determination : Beyond the Decolonisation Process. Routledge.
• Saul, M. (2011). The Normative Status of Self-Determination in International Law: A Formula for Uncertainty in the Scope and Content of the Right? https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngr025
• Silverstein, J. (1979). Secession: The Legitimacy of Self-Determination. By Buchheit Lee C.. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. xi + 260. $17.50.). American Political Science Review, 04, 1205.
• T. REMENSKI, F. (2012). SECESSION AND SELF-DETERMINATION OF PEOPLE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: The case of former Yugoslavia.