The right of self-determination of peoples: the domestication of an illusion

Individual self-determination

Collective self-determination

The people

Self-determination and the right of self-determination

Early modern Europe : precursors of a right of self-determination?

The first decolonization and the right to independence : the Americas 1776-1826

The French Revolution and the invention of the plebiscite

From the European restoration to the First World War, 1815-1914

The First World War and the peace treaties 1918-1923

The interwar period, 1923-1939

The Second World War : the perversion of a great promise

The Cold War and the second decolonization, 1945-1989

After 1989 : the quest for a new equilibrium.