¹ See this scholarship reviewed in Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations 5–6 (2009).

² Id.

³ Lorca, Arnulf Becker, Petitioning the International: A “Pre-History” of Self-Determination, 25 Eur. J. Int'l L. 497 (2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁴ See generally Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018).

⁵ Luis Eslava, The Developmental State: Independence, Dependency, and the History of the South, in The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era (Jochen von Bernstorff & Philipp Dann eds., 2019); Sundhya Pahuja, Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality (2011).

⁶ Adom Getachew, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019).

⁷ Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (Keith Tribe trans., 2004).

⁸ See, e.g., Getachew, supra note 6.

⁹ See, e.g., David Kennedy, A World of Struggle: How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy (2016).

¹⁰ Reference re Secession of Quebec [1998] 2 SCR 217 (Can.)

¹¹ Final Communiqué of the Asian-African Conference of Bandung (Apr. 24, 1955).

¹² Nazmul Sultan, What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth Century Political Category, Am. Poli. Sci. Rev. 1 (2024); see also Arneil, Barbara, Colonialism Versus Imperialism, 52 Pol. Theory 146 (2024)CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.

¹³ Id.

¹⁴ Secession of Quebec, supra note 10.

¹⁵ See Isaac Chotiner, The Real Story Behind Patrice Lumumba's Assassination, New Yorker (Oct. 30, 2023), at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/06/the-lumumba-plot-the-secret-history-of-the-cia-and-a-cold-war-assassination-stuart-a-reid-book-review. For a rich account on film, see Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (Johan Grimonprez dir., 2024).

¹⁶ See Final Communiqué, supra note 11.

¹⁷ Nazmul Sultan, Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought (2024).