Self-determination of peoples and plural-ethnic states in contemporary international law [electronic resource] : failed states, nation-building and the alternative, federal option / Edward McWhinney.
By: McWhinney, Edward.
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BookPublisher: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007Description: vii, 133 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): United Nations | Self-determination, National | State succession | Nationalities, Principle of | Ethnic relations -- Political aspects | Federal governmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 341.26 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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