The Globalization and Self-Determination project studies the ways in which globalization, understood as the international integration of markets for goods, services, and capital, poses fundamental threats to self-determination. The first concerns the unleashing of powerful forces that threaten national sovereignty from "outside" the nation state, including the increasingly integrated nature of markets, the emergence of regional institutions to govern these markets, and the activities of multilateral institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank. The second globalization threat to self-determination concerns attacks on existing political boundaries from "inside" the nation state – the ability of self-defined groups and their members to choose autonomously how to govern themselves.

We invite you to read the papers published herein by faculty and conference participants, to make use of the datasets and case studies compiled in the course of our research, and to watch this site for information on future talks and conferences, and publications.

The Globalization and Self-Determination Project has been funded with the help of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.