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Argues that acts of terrorism by a people struggling for self-determination can and should be prosecuted under the 1977 extension of the International Humanitarian Law. Considers the evolution of the right to self-determination through the perspective of resorting to violence, examples of people achieving self-determination by such means, the effects of wars of self-determination on the evolution of the International Humanitarian Law, the failure of states to deter international terrorism, strategies behind terror, and political consequences and legal obstacles to applying the law. A thesis accepted by the University of Nottingham and updated to include events through May 1995. Distributed by Kluwer. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.