American Prestige
American Prestige
Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison
E259 - Who’s Allowed Self-Determination? w/ Brad Simpson
54 minutes Posted Jul 29, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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Danny and Derek speak with historian Brad Simpson about the history and evolving meaning of self-determination in international politics and law. They talk about the Wilson-Lenin debate, the Atlantic Charter, the Nazi appropriation of ethno-nationalist self-determination, the decolonization movements of the mid-20th century, the failure of the new international economic order, and the idea's continuing relevance to places like Palestine and Greenland.
Get Brad’s book The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941–2000.
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