Artikel in englischer und portugiesischer Sprache über das erste Abkommen zwischen der Regierung und Renamo vom 1.12.1990 in Rom, das eine Teilfeuereinstellung vorsieht. Abdruck des politischen Programms der Partido Liberal e Democratico (portugiesisch). Hintergrundbericht zur Verfassungsreform. Diskussion der Beziehungen zwischen Demokratie und ökonomischer Entwicklung. (DÜI-Mcd)
Zwei Beiträge zu den Friedensverhandlungen zwischen der MPLA und der UNITA sowie zur wirtschaftlichen und politischen Reform. Rede von Präsident Dos Santos: 1) (Port.) Sowohl die politischen Veränderungen in den UdSSR und in anderen afrikanischen Ländern wie auch, und vor allem, der seit 15 Jahren andauernde Bürgerkrieg und dessen wirtschaftliche Folgen haben die Regierung zur Kursänderung gezwungen. Aber auch die schlechte Organisation und Kontrolle staatlicher Institutionen wie auch Korruption haben eine Rolle gespielt. 2) (Engl.) Nach einer Währungsreform mit einer Währungsabwertung von 100% im September 1990 haben sich die Preise stabilisiert. Der kurzen Frist wegen konnten nicht alle Menschen ihre alten Geldscheine gegen neue eintauschen. Besonders betroffen waren die ländlichen Gebiete. 3) (Port./Engl.) Rede von Präsident dos Santos: Einführung eines Mehrparteiensystems; Verfassungsreform; freie Marktwirtschaft u.a. (DÜI-Mcd)
Self-determination is a crucial concept in establishing the legitimacy of political communities in the international system, and thereby in constructing social identities and political loyalties. At the most general level, self-determination refers to an idea of a right to freedom. In international politics, it also refers to a norm on ways of bounding political communities. At the same time, what self-determination precisely means is contested and contingent. I argue that self-determination evolves today amidst a tension between the challenges of diversity and liberal peace dictates. While diversity has to do with varieties of cultural expression, socioeconomic organization and political status, liberal peace dictates concern global governance practices that tend to impose previous liberal models of democracy, development and human rights. The essay first presents the evolution of the meaning of self-determination in international politics. Then it addresses critical approaches upon contemporary liberal peace. The remaining sections analyze how contemporary self-determination movements present claims highly suggestive to rethink forms of political community, of state-community relation, and of participation in global governance structures.
The contemporary debate in the theory of international relations is marked by two perspectives: on the one hand the perspective of political realism that conceives of peace as an inaccessible ideal and war as a necessary means for the acquisition and maintenance of power; and on the other hand the perspective of normativism or idealism that thinks the end (telos) of international relations beyond the conflicts of interest and the struggle for power. The first perspective deals with international relations at the level of being (of what is), the second at the level of ought (normative level). In view of this scenario, our idea in this article is to approach the problem of war and peace from an interdisciplinary study through contributions from Kant's Public International Law and Philosophy. In a first moment we will analyze the paradox of the war, then the role of the Public International Law for the problematic of the peace, and finally the contributions of Kant for the normative redefinition of the international right from his republican project of the league of peace (foedus pacificum).
Self-determination is a crucial concept in establishing the legitimacy of political communities in the international system, and thereby in constructing social identities and political loyalties. At the most general level, self-determination refers to an idea of a right to freedom. In international politics, it also refers to a norm on ways of bounding political communities. At the same time, what selfdetermination precisely means is contested and contingent. I argue that self-determination evolves today amidst a tension between the challenges of diversity and liberal peace dictates. While diversity has to do with varieties of cultural expression, socioeconomic organization and political status, liberal peace dictates concern global governance practices that tend to impose previous liberal models of democracy, development and human rights. The essay first presents the evolution of the meaning of self-determination in international politics. Then it addresses critical approaches upon contemporary liberal peace. The remaining sections analyze how contemporary self-determination movements present claims highly suggestive to rethink forms of political community, of state-community relation, and of participation in global governance structures.
