The everyday banality of domination and the exceptional drama of conquest: Rosa Luxemburg’s critique of self-determination through the many lives of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Journal: London Review of International Law
Year: 2025

Abstract This article explores Rosa Luxemburg’s theories in relation to present international legal discourses on the ban on conquest and its fragility. Towards this end, I centre the significance of the (partitioned) Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a generative site for modern conceptualisations of ‘conquest’ and, relatedly, Luxemburg’s formative context of political engagement.