Self-Determination of Peoples and Plural-Ethnic States in Contemporary International Law : Failed States, Nation-Building and the Alternative, Federal Option

✍ Scribed by Edward McWhinney

• Book ID: 127182408
• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 661 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• City: Boston, Netherlands
• ISBN: 9004158359
• DOI: 10.1163/9789047423478

✦ Synopsis

In analysing the contemporary International Law principles as to Self-determination of Peoples, Dr. Edward McWhinney gives a special attention to the crisis of multinational states. A special concluding chapter draws on the empirical record of the historical, often trial-and-error experience of the Succession states to the Versailles treaties settlements and to the assorted acts of Decolonisation of the former European Imperial, Colonial powers.

✦ Subjects

United Nations. ; Self-determination, National. ; State succession. ; Nationalities, Principle of. ; Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. ; Federal government.; LAW051000; LAW075000; POL045000