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McWhinney, Edward.

Self-determination of peoples and plural-ethnic states in contemporary international law failed states, nation-building and the alternative, federal option / [electronic resource] : Edward McWhinney. - Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. - vii, 133 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The national and international faces of federalism -- Self-determination of peoples as United Nations principle : historical roots and contemporary international law/municipal (constitutional) law antinomies -- Emergence of states in classical international law -- The United Nations Charter and admission of states, and also their exclusion -- The United Nations Charter principle of territorial integrity of states : the Uti Possidetis Doctrine as element in state succession -- Federalism and constitutional pluralism as self-determination options for plural-ethnic States : the different faces of federalism in comparative constitutional law --Law and politics and the dialectical unfolding of the self-determination principle -- Excursus - failed states : the trial-and-error of contemporary exercises in constitution-making and nation-building.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






United Nations.


Self-determination, National.
State succession.
Nationalities, Principle of.
Ethnic relations--Political aspects.
Federal government.


Electronic books.

KZ1269 / .M38 2007eb

341.26
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