Is Self-Determination a Dangerous Illusion? by David Miller

Author:David Miller [Miller, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2019-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 J. Waldron, ‘Two Conceptions of Self-Determination’, in S. Besson and J. Tasioulas (eds), The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 397–413.

2 I draw here on my longer discussion of Waldron in D. Miller, ‘Neo-Kantian Theories of Self-Determination: a Critique’, Review of International Studies 42 (2016): 858–75.

3 See Waldron, ‘Two Conceptions of Self-Determination’, pp. 411–12.

4 I am simplifying the proposal here for purposes of illustration. Its proponents do not in fact advocate a unitary state but rather a complex federal arrangement in which each community is entrusted with substantial powers to organize its own collective life: see, for example, A. Burg, ‘The One State Solution’, Prospect, September 2018. Assuming this can be made to work, each community becomes partially self-determining. But there is still no significant sense in which the people of the land of Israel–Palestine could enjoy self-determination as a single people so long as they remain deeply divided ethnically and politically.

5 For an overview of the evidence, see P. Lenard and D. Miller, ‘Trust and National Identity’, in E. Uslaner (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

6 I have discussed the problem of assigning collective responsibility in autocracies more fully in D. Miller, National Responsibility and Global Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), ch. 5.

7 See M. Setälä and G. Smith, ‘Mini-Publics and Deliberative Democracy’, in A. Bächtiger, J. Dryzek, J. Mansbridge and M. Warren (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018); K. Grönlund, A. Bächtiger and M. Setälä (eds), Deliberative Mini-Publics: Involving Citizens in the Democratic Process (Colchester: ECPR Press, 2014).

8 See Setälä and Smith, ‘Mini-Publics and Deliberative Democracy’, p. 301.

9 See C. Lafont, ‘Deliberation, Participation, and Democratic Legitimacy: Should Deliberative Mini-publics Shape Public Policy?’, Journal of Political Philosophy 23 (2015): 40–63.

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