This volume considers the nature and facets of self-determination, at a time when the global state-system is experiencing unprecedented strain. The mix of theoretically and empirically oriented essays provides some novel insights into this important topic.

This book was published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.

1. Introduction Karl Cordell (School of Government, Plymouth University) Self-determination and the End of History 2. The Daily Plebiscite as 21st-Century Reality Aviel Roshwald (Department of History, Georgetown University) 3. Paradoxes of violence and self-determination Matthew Anthony Evangelista (Politics, Cornell University) 4. Self-Determination in the Post-State Formation Era: New Trajectories for an International Order Principle in the 21st Century Oded Haklai (Politics, Queen's University) The Dangers of Self-Determination 5. The Confused Compass: From Self-Determination to State-Determination Uriel Abulof (LISD/WWS, Princeton University; Politics, Tel-Aviv University) 6. Self-Determination as Pretext for Imperialism: The Russian Experience Mark R. Beissinger (Politics, Princeton University) 7. The Evils of Self-determination Amitai Etzioni (International Affairs, George Washington University) Self-Determination and the Politics of Identity 8. The Right to Self-determination as a Claim to Independence in International Relations Practice Mikulas Fabry (International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology) 9. Constructing the 'Self': Visual Representations of the Nation in the case of Iraqi Kurd and Bosnian Serb Claims for the Right to Self-Determination Outi Keranen (Political Science, University College London) & Zeynep Kaya 10. What Role do Leaders Play in Movements for Self-Determination? A Case of Emerging Separatism in Eastern Ukraine Elise Giuliano (International Relations and Comparative Politics, Columbia University) 11. Self-determination and majority-minority relations in deeply divided societies: a comparative analytical framework Ilan Peleg (Government & Law, Lafayette College) Self-determining the State 12. Stateness, National Self-determination and War and Peace in the 21st Century Benny Miller (Politics, Haifa University) 13. The consequences of democracy: On Catalonia's self-determination Montserrat Guibernau (Politics, Queen Mary University of London) 14. A Brief History of Self-Determination Referendums Before 1920 Matt Qvortrup (Management and Security, Cranfield University) 15. Conclusion Wolfgang Danspeckgruber (LISD/WWS, Princeton University) and Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein

Karl Cordell is Professor of Politics at Plymouth University UK. He has numerous publications in the fields of German politics, German-Polish relations and the politics of nationalism and ethnicity. He is also co-editor of the journals Civil Wars and Ethnopolitics.

Uriel Abulof is an assistant professor of Politics at Tel-Aviv University and a senior research fellow at Princeton University's LISD / Woodrow Wilson School. He studies political legitimation and violence, focusing on nationalism, democratization, revolutions and ethnic conflicts. Abulof's first book Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (Haifa University Press) received Israel's best academic book award, and he recently completed his second book, The Mortality and Morality of Nations (Cambridge University Press).