title: Violence in self-determination conflicts: Exploring the zone of exception in international law
abstract: The role played by the right of peoples to self-determination in international law after decolonization demonstrates that violence is to be found not only outside the law or at its foundations, in the law-establishing act, but also within zones created by the law itself. What is so striking about this right that it does not correspond to any concrete entitlement that is invokable or enforceable within international law. It corresponds to a proper abyss: a politico-moral slogan that only when fou