In this article I examine selective dimensions of the nexus among the right to self-determination, human rights, and the ‘nation-state’ as they relate to claims made by certain ethno-cultural minority groups. I first discuss some conceptual extensions of ‘national’ claims and their underlying relation to international law and state sovereignty. Then, I critique elements of ‘national’ self-determination that are supposedly constitutive of the law of self-determination, including arguments about sub-national groups as ‘peoples’, and discuss some alternative approaches to the role of international law vis-a-vis this sort of claims. Finally, I argue that international human rights law can offer a synthesis of the above nexus insofar as it works, not so much as a platform for accepting or rejecting seemingly ‘absolute’ rights or solely enabling legal-institutional ad hocism, but rather as a general process-based framework for assessing group- related pathologies that are (directly or indirectly) of international law’s own making.

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自决，人权与民族国家

在本文中，我研究了自决权，人权和“民族国家”之间关系的选择性维度，因为它们与某些民族文化少数群体的主张有关。我首先讨论“国家”主张的一些概念扩展及其与国际法和国家主权的潜在关系。然后，我批评所谓的“民族”自决要素，这些要素据认为是自决法的组成部分，包括将次国家集团视为“人民”的论点，并讨论国际法相对于-针对此类索赔。最后，我认为，国际人权法可以在可行的范围内综合上述关系，