ABSTRACT
Throughout the 20th century, the right to self-determination has evolved under international law. Even those who dispute the existence of the right to self-determination outside the colonial context would agree about the existence of scholarly and jurisprudential debate around this subject. Recent cases illustrate the willingness of some in the international community to acknowledge the presence of a possible right of self-determination for non-colonized peoples. In order to address this issue, this chapter will focus first on the development of self-determination rights in the 20th century, before turning to a discussion of state dissolutions in the 1990s, having produced self-determination-seeking entities.
