'The Consciousness of Duty Done'? British Attitudes towards Self-Determination and the Case of the Sudan
'The Consciousness of Duty Done'? British Attitudes towards Self-Determination and the Case of the Sudan
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10.1093/bybil/brz002
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发表时间：
2019
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Chasapis Tassinis O
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作者：
Chasapis Tassinis O
根据占主导地位的说法，自决权只是在1960年代以后，甚至只是在1970年代初才作为一个法律问题而具有相关性。然而，本文通过重提自决的法律的历史上一个似乎被遗忘的插曲，表明在联合国安全理事会运作的第二年，即1947年，联合王国援引另一个民族----苏丹人----的自决权作为他们的法律的权利，以反击埃及对苏丹的要求。这篇文章有力地支持了主要来源，叙述了英国驻苏丹官员如何设法在伦敦宣传苏丹自决的思想，即使只是为了服务，而不是挑战他们自己的殖民权力和行为。他们如此成功地做到了这一点，以至于英国政府不顾联合王国的战略和殖民利益，最终在安全理事会援引自决作为其法律的论据的一部分。
According to the dominant narrative, the right of self-determination became relevant as a matter of law only after the 1960s or even only in the early 1970s. However, by reviving a seemingly forgotten episode in the legal history of self-determination, this article shows that during the UN Security Council’s second year of operation, in 1947, the United Kingdom invoked the right of self-determination of another people, the Sudanese, as their legal entitlement, in its effort to counter Egyptian claims on the Sudan. Giving a strong voice to primary sources, this article narrates how British officials in the Sudan managed to promote the idea of Sudanese self-determination in London, even if only to serve, not challenge, their own colonial power and behaviour. They were so successful in doing this that the British Government, despite the UK's strategic and colonial interests, ultimately invoked self-determination as part of its legal argumentation in the Security Council.