national self-determination

Cultural  

1. Creation of national governmental institutions by a group of people who view themselves as a distinct nation (for example, because they have a common language). National self-determination is opposed to colonialism and imperialism. (See Fourteen Points.)

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national self-determination

The world has been attempting throughout history to get nations to honor the ideals of national self-determination, sovereign borders and peaceful coexistence.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2022

The two parties agreed that the U.N. would broker a vote on national self-determination.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018

The PLO saw the Oslo accord as a vehicle to national self-determination in the territories occupied by Israel in the June 1967 war.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2018

The former prime minister said that in 1914, Redmond had won the opportunity for national self-determination solely by "parliamentary means and without the loss of a life".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2014

Sun Yat-sen later gave a graphic description of the world-wide appeal of Woodrow Wilson's principle of national self-determination.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger