National minority rights in Europe / Tove H. Malloy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malloy, Tove H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe.

Minorities.

Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.

Minorities--Government policy.

Europe.

Minorities--Government policy--Europe.

Physical Description:

xx, 354 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Separatism is a highly topical and controversial legal and political issue. The conflicts in the Balkans of the 1990s have revived the unresolved issue of national minority self-determination in international law and also, in European politics, the issues of how to deal with sub-state nationalisms and group recognition, and how to enable the political inclusion of national minorities. This book reviews the impact of the discourse of national minority rights on the European inter-governmental approach to national minority accommodation after 1989, and proposes an alternative framework for national minority accommodation based upon multiple loyalties, critical citizenship, and discursive justice.

Contents:

Overview : national minority, or co-nation?

Co-nation rights after 1989 : cultural or political rights?

Co-nation rights and the concept of 'collective rights' : human rights or institutional rights?

Liberalism and nationalism : the problem of co-nation inclusion in national self-determination

Liberalism and the constitutive community : recognition and individual practical reasoning in self-determination

Liberal democracy and the discursive approach : ethics, virtues, and cosmopolitan consideration

The politics of democratization : the circular problem of state sovereignty

The politics of integration : the possibilities of de facto co-nation sovereignty

Towards a critical theory of co-nation rights : forging ethical standing through social power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-343) and index.

ISBN:

0199274436

OCLC:

57652300