The Antagonistic Contradiction between the Principles of “Self-Determination” and “Territorial Integrity”: The UN Logical Deadlock
The Antagonistic Contradiction between the Principles of “Self-Determination” and “Territorial Integrity”: The UN Logical Deadlock

Author(s): Alexandre Fedorovski
Subject(s): International Law, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Scientia Moralitas Research Institute
Keywords: self-determination; territorial integrity; failing state;
Summary/Abstract: This theoretical and applied sociological research is devoted to an extremely complex and important problem that is increasingly faced by both multinational countries and federations, and the world community. This problem is the correlation of the principles of "self-determination" and "territorial integrity" in the modern world, caused by the growing relevance of the systemic changes in state and international legal systems. The immediate object of applied sociological research is the six-year-old civil war in the south-east of Ukraine, the Donbas, and to some extent - the “Transdniestria.” In political journalism and in the scientific literature, the reasons and internal motivation, the driving forces of the secession self-determination, in the vast majority of cases receive an inadequate, distorted politicized picture of what is really happening there. The general object of this study is the phenomenon of national self-determination as an integral part of the cultural, economic and political life of the present multi-subject social organism. The subject of the research are the causes of the getting momentum centrifugal tendencies, activating from a "sleeping state" in the Eastern and Western Ukrainian regions, as well as in a number of other multi-subject political and economic entities (states and unrecognized "independent" territories). The isomorphic phenomena take place in a number of other regions of the world (North America - Canada, Europe - Spain, Serbia, Great Britain, Russia, Asia – India, Sri Lanka). The purpose of this study is to create an optimal derivative model of these processes for the purposes of foreseeing and the efficient positive “prophylactics” of the forthcoming political conflicts of future.

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