Post-World War One Plebiscites and Their Legacies: Exploring the Right of Self-Determination

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Title: Post-World War One Plebiscites and Their Legacies : Exploring the Right of Self-Determination

Contains: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction Between Plebiscites, Difficult History, and Minority Rights -- Part One: The Right to Self-Determination and Plebiscites -- Chapter 1. Schleswig Safe for Democracy? A Comparative Perspective on Right-Sizing Referendums -- Chapter 2. Plebiscites and the Difficult Transition to Peace after the First World War -- Part Two: Plebiscites and Minority Rights in the Aftermath of the Paris Peace Conference -- Chapter 3. Where is Schleswig? Danish, German, and International Conceptions of the Schleswig Plebiscite -- Chapter 4. Principles and Politics: Flensburg and Klagenfurt in the Plebiscites of 1920 -- Chapter 5. Visions of Legal and Substantive Citizenship and the League of Nations’ Minority Treaties -- Part Three: Post-Plebiscitary Territories as Living Spaces between the Two World Wars -- Chapter 6. Fabricating a Border: The Sopron Plebiscite of 1921 and the Delineation of Burgenland -- Chapter 7. “Here at the Bleeding Eastern Border, One Could See the Injustice”: July 11, 1920, in the Public Conscience and the Regierungspräsidium of Marienwerder until 1939 -- Chapter 8. A Gendered View on the Plebiscitary and Post-plebiscitary Carinthian Slovene Minority: Roles and Realities of Women -- Part Four: The Post-World War I Plebiscites in the Longue Durée -- Chapter 9. Plebiscites, Minorities, and the Right of National Self-determination—Some Lessons from 1920 -- Chapter 10. Militarized Plebiscite? The Legacy of the 1920 Carinthian Plebiscite -- Chapter 11. About Sèvres, Lausanne, the Widow Molla Sali, and the Ineffectual Attempt of Greece to Circumvent the Principles of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities -- Concluding Chapter “Why Not Hold a Plebiscite like in Schleswig?” The Significance of Plebiscites in Solving Nationality and Border Conflicts in Europe since World War I -- List of Contributors -- Index

Contributor: Bahovec, Tina [Contributor]; Bober, Sergiusz [Contributor]; Bober, Sergiusz [Editor]; Gesme, Ryan J. [Contributor]; Henrard, Kristin [Contributor]; Keudell, Harald v. [Contributor]; Klat, Martin [Contributor]; Knight, Robert [Contributor]; Kühl, Jørgen [Contributor]; Prot, Volker [Contributor]; Qvortrup, Matt [Contributor]; Rein, Detlev [Contributor]; Rásk, Béla [Contributor]; Thaler, Peter [Contributor]

Corporation: Opening the Future

Published: Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, [2024]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (286 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9789633866115

ISBN: 9789633866115

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Keywords: Plebiscite ; Referendum ; Self-determination, National ; World War, 1914-1918 Territorial questions ; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century ; Minority rights ; self-determination

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Footnote: In English

Description: Plebiscites, or referendums, are epitomes of direct democracy and the right of self-determination. While direct democracy has always been a key subject in the theory and practice of western liberal democracies, the issue of self-determination has been propelled to the fore by the hegemonistic moves of Russia. By providing a historical analysis of the post-World War One plebiscites, this book deals with enduring, painfully contemporary, and in in any case fundamental, concepts. The contributors to this edited volume approach the referendums comparatively. After grounding the analysis theoretically, the authors look at detailed aspects of individual cases, with the two plebiscites held in the Danish-German border region of Schleswig in the winter of 1920 as points of departure. They then extend the exploration through the inter-war period and address the effects of border delimitations on everyday life or gender roles in the context of ethnic mobilization. Finally, the book places the post-World War One plebiscites in a long-term perspective. The concluding essays assess, among others, the applicability of plebiscitary solutions to contemporary conflicts, taking into consideration issues of borders, religion, language, identity, and minority rights

Access State: Open Access

Rights information: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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