Discussion
The concept of self-determination was conceived as :
Answer: D
Self-determination was conceived as the political independence of ethnic or national communities.
The principle, championed by Woodrow Wilson and Lenin around the First World War, holds that a people or nation has the right to determine its own political status, typically by forming its own state. It guided the redrawing of European borders after 1918 and was later written into the UN Charter.
It was later applied to colonies in the era of decolonisation, but it was conceived for nations and peoples generally, not only colonies. It is about political status, not economic policy, and it is the opposite of a defence of colonialism.
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