- Joseph S. Nye Jr. is Distin-guished Service Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Govern-ment and author, most recently, of The Powers to Lead.
by Joseph S. Nye
CAMBRIDGE – National self-determination seems a straightforward moral principle, but it is fraught with problems. After Russia sent troops into Georgia in August 2008, it recognized the independence of two breakaway Georgian provinces, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. When few other states followed its example, Russia pointed out that the NATO countries had used force to help Kosovo separate from Serbia.
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