Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 The Liechtenstein Draft Convention on Self-Determination Through Self-Administration
CHAPTER 2 The Right of Self-Determination Under International Law: The Coherence of Doctrine Versus the Incoherence of Experience
CHAPTER 3 Global Change and the Future of Existing Nation-States
CHAPTER 4 The Other Side of Self-Determination: State Contraction in Theory and Practiceβ Lessons from Britain-Ireland, France-Algeria, and Israel-West Bank/Gaza
CHAPTER 5 The United Nations and National Self-Determination: The New Interventionism and an Internationalist Alternative
CHAPTER 6 The Limits of Self-Determination
CHAPTER 7 Mayan Self-Determination: Multicultural Models and Educational Choice for Guatemala
CHAPTER 8 The Frontiers of Our Dreams Are No Longer the Same: Cultural Dynamics of Exclusion and Community in France, the United States, and QuΓ©bec
CHAPTER 9 Self-Determination, Subsidiarity, and Regionalization in Contemporary Western Europe
CHAPTER 10 Self-Determination and Self-Administration in the Former Soviet Union
CHAPTER 11 Self-Determination and Nation Building in Post-Cold War Africa: Problems and Prospects
CHAPTER 12 From Nominal Autonomy to Genuine Self-Administration: A Strategy for Improving Minority Rights in China
CHAPTER 13 The Bell Curve of Ethnic Politics: The Rise and Decline of Self-Determination Movements in India
CHAPTER 14 Sudan: The Challenge of Nationhood
CHAPTER 15 Avoiding the Iron Cage of Legislated Identity
Appendix 1: List of Abbreviations
Appendix 2: The Liechtenstein Initiative at the United Nations
Appendix 3: Summary of International Conferences on Self-Determination by the Liechtenstein Research Program on Self-Determination
Appendix 4: President Woodrow Wilson's Declarations Regarding Self-Determination
Appendix 5: International Declarations Regarding Self-Determination
Appendix 6: Excerpts from Judgments and Advisory Opinions of the International Court of Justice Bearing on Self-Determination
Appendix 7: Principal Treaties and Agreements Relating to Self-Determination: 1648 to the Twentieth Century
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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