Organizer: NYSEAN; NYU Master’s Program in International Relations (MAIR); NYU Department of History

Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY

Description:

Join NYSEAN for a book talk by Bradly R. Simpson, Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Connecticut and Founder/Director of the Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. 

This event is open to the public, and registration is required.

About the Book:

The idea of self-determination is one of the most significant in modern international politics. For more than a century diplomats, lawyers, scholars, activists, and ordinary people in every part of the globe have wrestled with its meaning and implications for decolonization, human rights, sovereignty, and international order. The First Right argues that there was no one self-determination, but a century-long contest between contending visions of sovereignty and rights that were as varied and changing as the nature of sovereignty itself. Self-determination's meaning has often emerged not just from the United Nations but from the claims of movements and peoples on the margins of international society. Powerful states, he shows, persistently rejected expansive self-determination claims, arguing that these threatened great power conflict, the dissolution of international order, or the unravelling of the world economy.

About the Speaker:

Bradly R. Simpson is a Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is a lifetime member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and is also founder and director of the Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive.

Registration:

To attend the event in person, please register here.