Minorities'' Claims: From Autonomy to Secession - International Law and State Practice

List of contents

Contents: Claims from autonomy to secession: introduction; The minority issue and ethnic conflicts; Minorities?; Peoples, all peoples, nations and minorities; Claims for autonomy with shared-sovereignty; Claims for autonomy through the right to self-determination?; Models of autonomy and movements for autonomy; Claims for autonomy: the concerns of states; Secessionist movements; The right to secession: the views of jurists; The right to secession: international law and UN practice; Secessionist attempts: case studies; The right to secession through the right to self-determination? attitudes of states; Conclusions; Index.

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Welhengama, Gnanapala

Summary

This title was first published in 2000:  An investigation of how minority groups’ claims for greater political power through autonomy and secession conflict with the concerns of the nation state. The way in which a state’s refusal to respond positively to such claims contributes to the escalation of ethnic conflicts is also explored.

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’...balanced, judicious and detailed...’ e-Extreme ’...it is extensively referenced and the writer is careful to point to evidence for his arguments in the views of jurists and judges, states and international organisations, as well as by reference to relevant international instruments. This book also contains a lot of detail and further reference material on ethnic conflicts. The writer provides much material about ethnic conflicts in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia and Europe, and integrates this within an international law framework. The book is therefore a good example of scholarship that is genuinely global in orientation.’ Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law

Product details

• Authors: Welhengama, Gnanapala Welhengama, Welhengama Gnanapala
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138740389
• ISBN: 978-1-138-74038-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International Law, Politics & government, Politics and government, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, autonomy;debates;minorities;politicians;scholars