Escaping the Self-Determination Trap

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“…Ahtisaari era percebido desde o início pelos sérvios como pró-independência. Na opinião de um acadêmico envolvido no processo, os sérvios apostavam de forma ampla suas reivindicações em normas de direito internacional, esperavam que a administração onusiana acabasse no curto prazo, o que significaria o retorno de Kosovo à administração de Belgrado, ainda que com muito mais autonomia e autogoverno (WELLER, 2008). As esperanças sérvias estavam depositadas no argumento jurídico de que a resolução 1244 previa a manutenção territorial da República Federal da Iugoslávia, bem como no eventual veto russo, caso uma nova resolução fosse apresentada ao Conselho de Segurança.…”

The International Court of Justice and the Georgia/Russia Dispute

“…19 Central to the dispute were the legal implications of secession and the related problems of precipitate recognition. 20 Although the separatist administrations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia have been largely autonomous from Georgia, their quest for formal independence has been contested and largely unsuccessful. Was the recognition by Russia premature in the face of overwhelming evidence that, since 1992, the central authorities in Tbilisi have exercised virtually no executive authority in the breakaway Republics?…”

Self-Determination, Identity and International Relations

“…Because of this, a tendency emerged to devise and propose a variety of power-sharing and devolution arrangements among existing states to resolve self-determination conflicts (e.g. Freeman 1996: 751;Danspeckgruber 2000: 17-20;Jeong 2003: 233-240;Chandhoke 2008;Weller 2008).…”

“…In any case, and especially when there are claims to national political independence, the way in which the international system functions constrains many of these struggles to a scenario of political violence, whether set off by themselves or by the state against which they present their claims, in what some authors have been calling the "self-determination trap" (Weller 2005;Perduca 2006;Weller 2008). The international system functions in ways that favor an idea of order and the continuity of existing states, which does not favor non-state groups aspirations to independence or autonomy.…”