Not quite sure what you are after, Jim, asking for my views on 'national self-determination'. If you mean ceding self-rule to colonised countries, I should have thought my views had been made clear. It is clearly desirable in theory; but pragmatically does not seem to have been a resounding success when practised in sub-Saharan Africa, having resulted in, on the one hand, SA apartheid, & on the other Idi Amin, Congo/Zaire civil wars, &c. I have told of what I heard from acquaintance in Sierra Leone where I lived & worked for a while, about 30 years after its independence. What other 'views', concerning whom or what part of the world, would you like?