Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Table of cases -- Table of treaties -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Approach -- Methodology -- Choice of literature -- Choice of case-studies -- PART I SELF-DETERMINATION IN POST-COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL LITERATURE -- 1 The question of norm-type -- Rules and principles -- Change -- Participation -- The international community -- 2 Interpretation and identity -- Who is a 'people'? -- Colonies -- Categories and coherence -- Coherence -- Categories and coherence compared -- When does the right of self-determination entitle a people to choose independence? -- Colonialism and freely expressed will -- Categories and coherence -- Corrective justice and history -- Rights, demos and ethnos -- Peace and violence -- 3 Pandemonium, interpretation and participation -- Darkness visible -- On the perilous edge -- The apostate angel -- PART II SELF-DETERMINATION INTERPRETED IN PRACTICE: THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURE -- 4 The canon of self-determination -- Western Sahara -- Past -- Terra Nullius -- Sovereignty and legality -- Western Sahara considered: The Dubai/Sharjah boundary arbitration -- Present -- EC Arbitration Commission Opinion No. 2 on Yugoslavia -- The opinion -- Two schools of criticism -- A new geometry of identity -- East Timor -- Rules of court -- Trusteeship -- Arguments and opinions in East Timor -- 5 Developing texts -- Competing visions -- International Labour Organization -- Process -- Substance -- UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations -- Process -- Substance -- PART III SELF-DETERMINATION INTERPRETED IN PRACTICE: THE CHALLENGE OF GENDER -- 6 Women and self-determination in Europe after World War I -- Collective self-determination -- Plebiscites -- Women's right to vote in the plebiscites -- Individual self-determination.

Right of option -- Collective option -- 7 Women and self-determination in United Nations trust territories -- Self-determination and the UN trusteeship system -- Equality and self-determination in the UN trusteeship system -- The Fon of Bikom -- Equality as promoted by the visiting missions and the administering authorities -- Equality and self-determination in the UN Commission on the Status of Women -- Petitions -- 8 Indigenous women and self-determination -- Equality -- Lovelace's arguments -- Views in Lovelace -- Conclusion -- Patterns -- Promise -- Bibliography -- Index.