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Author McWhinney, Edward.

Title 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.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007.

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Description vii, 133 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject United Nations.
Self-determination, National.
State succession.
Nationalities, Principle of.
Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.
Federal government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004158351 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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