Democracy, Minorities and International Law

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Cambridge University Press, 22 dec. 2005 - 201 pagini
This work explores the contribution that international law may make to the resolution of culture conflicts--political disputes between the members of different ethno-cultural groups--in democratic States. International law recognizes that persons belonging to minorities have the right to enjoy their own culture and peoples have the right to self-determination without detailing how these principles are to be put into effect. The emergence of democracy as a legal obligation of States permits the international community to concern itself with both the procedure and substance of 'democratic' decisions concerning ethno-cultural groups.

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The rights of minorities
7
The League of Nations minorities regime
8
The United Nations era
10
The International Covenants
11
Minorities
17
Persons belonging to minorities
31
The right to cultural security
34
Positive measures
38
Conclusion
124
Democracy
127
Democracy in international law
128
The human right to democracy
135
Equal rights to political participation
137
Parliamentary representation
140
Participation in the conduct of public affairs
148
Minorities and political participation
150

The UN Declaration on Minorities
43
The protection of national minorities in Europe
45
Conclusion
62
The selfdetermination of peoples
64
Decolonisation
66
Selfdetermination beyond colonialism
77
Sovereign selfdetermination
85
Lessthansovereign selfdetermination
106
Indigenous peoples
109
The rights of political participation of national minorities in Europe
155
The limits of procedural inclusion
160
Consociational democracy
161
Integrating diversity
177
Democratic decisionmaking
184
Conclusion
189
the accommodation of diversity
191
Index
199
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Steven Wheatley is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights Law and International Law at the University of Leeds.

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