The UN as Both Foe and Friend to Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination
The UN, created to uphold the sovereignty of states, has become a vehicle for Indigenous peoples to organise in favour of their rights.
Self-Determination as a Process: The United Nations in South Sudan
In South Sudan, self-determination was ensured only to have it violated by external powers. These interferences did not help end the conflict; rather they made it worse.
The United Nations and Self-Determination in the Case of East Timor
In the case of East Timor, one can argue that the UN was definitely not a friend to the people of East Timor even without the right to self-determination in the equation.
The Precarious History of the UN towards Self-Determination
Moving beyond the existing UN paradigm might bring forward better and sustainable solutions for some of the world’s longest-lasting conflicts.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Indigenous Perspectives and the Buffalo Treaty
Developments within IR highlight the struggle of Indigenous peoples to maintain their place-based existence so that their lands, cultures, communities and relationships will flourish for generations to come.
Review – Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers?
The authors tackle the ethical issues surrounding humanitarian intervention and the principles of sovereignty and non-intervention – from two competing standpoints.
Call for Papers – The UN: Friend or Foe of Self-Determination?
We are opening up an invitation for contributing authors for an exciting new open access book on the UN and Self-Determination.
Indigenous Perspectives on International Relations Theory
Indigenous efforts challenge state-centric views to include different ways of understanding relations between peoples, the natural world and the planet.
Edited Collection – Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Indigenous peoples find themselves locked in power struggles with states and transnational actors who resist their claims, raising important questions in theory and practice.
Self-Determination, Relational Autonomy, and Transnational Mediation
The main obstacle to restoring Indigenous self-determination is that governments face only occasional external pressure to uphold the principles of the UN Declaration.
