Democracy, minorities, and international law /
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| Author / Creator: | Wheatley, Steven. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | xxii, 201 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5871471 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Table of cases
- Table of treaties
- Table of UN resolutions and OSCE and other documents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The rights of minorities
- The League of Nations' minorities regime
- The United Nations era
- The International Covenants
- Minorities
- 'Persons belonging to minorities ...'
- The right to cultural security
- Positive measures
- The UN Declaration on Minorities
- The protection of national minorities in Europe
- Conclusion
- 2. The self-determination of peoples
- Decolonisation
- 'Self-determination beyond colonialism'
- Sovereign self-determination
- 'Less-than-sovereign' self-determination
- Indigenous peoples
- Conclusion
- 3. Democracy
- Democracy in international law
- The human right to democracy
- Equal rights to political participation
- Parliamentary representation
- Participation in the conduct of public affairs
- Minorities and political participation
- The rights of political participation of national minorities in Europe
- The limits of procedural inclusion
- Consociational democracy
- Integrating diversity
- Democratic decision-making
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: the accommodation of diversity
- Index