International Conference on Eurasian Economies
10-12 July 2017 – Istanbul, TURKEY
Paper detail
Paper ID : 1856
Status : Paper published
Language : English
Topic : International Trade and Globalization
Presenter: Asst. Prof. Dr. Yavuz Çilliler
Session : 1A Growth & Development
The Influence of Political Economy on the “Self-Determination of Peoples”
The Influence of Political Economy on the “Self-Determination of Peoples”
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Yavuz Çilliler (İstanbul Kent Üniversitesi, Türkiye)
Abstract
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 to explain the dominance of political economy in international decision making processes about the people making a claim for their own state, and to highlight the changing nature of political economy supporting sometimes the sovereign states and sometimes the sub-state level ethnic groups. In this context, the theoretical development and the application of “self-determination” principle is assessed relatively by historical comparison method. Field research for the study comprises archival research of primary and secondary resources. This paper concludes that the political economy has usually greater influence on the application of “self-determination” to the national and international disputes than its ethic and legal content, and that the paradoxical content of this principle contributes to the redistribution of lands usually in compliance with the interests of great powers.
JEL codes: F59
Çilliler, Yavuz (2017). "The Influence of Political Economy on the “Self-Determination of Peoples”" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2017, pp.38-43, Istanbul, TURKEY.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C08.01856
Session 1A: Growth & Development
