Self-determination of peoples and plural-ethnic states in contemporary international law
Subtitle: failed states, nation-building and the alternative, federal option
By: Edward McWhinney.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9789004158351
Subjects: United Nations; Self-determination, National; State succession; Nationalities, Principle of; Ethnic relations -- Political aspects; Federal government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The national and international faces of federalism; title: Self-determination of peoples as United Nations principle : historical roots and contemporary international law/municipal (constitutional) law antinomies; title: Emergence of states in classical international law; title: The United Nations Charter and admission of states, and also their exclusion; title: The United Nations Charter principle of territorial integrity of states : the Uti Possidetis Doctrine as element in state succession; title: Federalism and constitutional pluralism as self-determination options for plural-ethnic States : the different faces of federalism in comparative constitutional law; title: Law and politics and the dialectical unfolding of the self-determination principle; title: Excursus - failed states : the trial-and-error of contemporary exercises in constitution-making and nation-building.