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When those of us armed with a typical liberal sense of right and wrong read historical accounts of liberation movements directed against either domestic tyrants or colonizers, we intuitively agree that the oppressed peoples deserved their freedom, because they deserved to govern themselves.
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Moltchanova, A. (2009). Multinational States and Moral Theories of International Legal Doctrine. In: National Self-Determination and Justice in Multinational States. Studies in Global Justice, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2691-0_1
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