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    Constituting the Self in Self-determination: an IR approach with an analysis of the Western Sahara case
    (Foundation for Good Politics, 2021-11) Barata, Maria João
    Because of the conventional phrasing of the self-determination right in international law, the question of what is “a” people is much debated in politics and literature on self-determination. In addressing this question, the literature on self-determination appears to assume a sequence: first the people, then self-determination. By contrast, in this article, author addresses the problem from an IR perspective, particularly the IR debate on identity, focusing on the role of international norms in making political communities recognizable and legitimate. The author argues that the norm of self-determination influences the constitution of the selves in the international system. The author draws on symbolic interactionism to point out that advancing individuality and originality is always dependent upon society by the mediation of symbolic resources, including norms. The norm of self-determination is a normative resource to project and construct a self that is amenable to perform in the international system and be recognized by others. The self that is proposed by the nationalist movement of the Sahrawi of the Western Sahara—with a delimited territory, a defined population, a collective consciousness and governing structures—illustrates the argument.
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    Contradições e Inovações da Autodeterminação no Sistema Internacional Contemporâneo
    (ISMT, 2016-07-01) Barata, Maria João
    O conceito de autodeterminação refere tanto um princípio geral de direito dos povos à liberdade, como uma norma jurídica com implicações tangíveis na delimitação geográfica e humana e na governação das comunidades políticas. Contudo, tensões e contradições complexas revelam-se nessa norma de direito internacional, ao mesmo tempo que as práticas políticas que a reivindicam ou procuram conter e regular – e que envolvem os próprios movimentos de autodeterminação, os Estados e as organizações internacionais – avançam novas perspectivas para a sua interpretação e concretização. O propósito deste artigo é rever e analisar estas duas questões sobre a autodeterminação no sistema internacional contemporâneo: a questão das tensões e contradições, em primeiro lugar, e, em segundo, a questão das tendências de inovação na sua interpretação conceptual e normativa. / The concept of self-determination refers both to a general principle of peoples’ right to freedom and a legal norm with concrete implications in bounding, humanly and geographically, and in governing political communities. However, complex tensions and contradictions appear in such a norm of international law, at the same time that political practices that claim it or that try to restrain or regulate it, and which involve the self-determination movements, States and international organizations, put forward new perspectives for its interpretation and implementation. This article aims at reviewing and analyzing these two topics about self-determination in the contemporary international system: the tensions and contradictions, in the first place, and the trends in innovating its conceptual and normative interpretation, in second place.
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    Self-determination between the Challenges of Diversity and Liberal Peace Dictates
    (Universidade do MInho, 2012) Barata, Maria João
    Self-determination is a crucial concept in establishing the legitimacy of political communities in the international system, and thereby in constructing social identities and political loyalties. At the most general level, self-determination refers to an idea of a right to freedom. In international politics, it also refers to a norm on ways of bounding political communities. At the same time, what selfdetermination precisely means is contested and contingent. I argue that self-determination evolves today amidst a tension between the challenges of diversity and liberal peace dictates. While diversity has to do with varieties of cultural expression, socioeconomic organization and political status, liberal peace dictates concern global governance practices that tend to impose previous liberal models of democracy, development and human rights. The essay first presents the evolution of the meaning of self-determination in international politics. Then it addresses critical approaches upon contemporary liberal peace. The remaining sections analyze how contemporary self-determination movements present claims highly suggestive to rethink forms of political community, of state-community relation, and of participation in global governance structures.
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