The Influence of Political Economy on the “Self-Determination of Peoples”
Journal: Uluslararası Avrasya ekonomileri konferansı
Year: 2017

The right of peoples to "self-determination” is influenced by varying motives in different times and geographies in its implementation, and is rarely operated according to its foundational ethic and legal bases dating back to the Kantian concept of free will and the international laws codified after the World War II. Particularly, political economy has always played an important but usually covered role in the application of this principle to national or international disputes. This paper aims t