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Sovereignty and diversity / edited by Miodrag Jovanović and Kristin Henrard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Utrecht : Eleven International Pub., [2008]Distributor: Portland, OR : Sold and distributed in USA and Canada, International Specialized Book Services Copyright date: ©2008Description: 197 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9077596534
  • 9789077596531
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.15 22
LOC classification:
  • KZ4041 .S665 2008
Contents:
Sovereignty, statehood, and the diversity challenge -- pt. 1.Theorizing contested sovereignty -- Liberalism, secession and violence -- Why borders? Self-determination and the ethics of secession -- Role of uti possidetis in determining boundaries -- pt. 2.Reconciling sovereignty and diversity -- Trust and tolerance as state making values in multicultural societies -- Can decentralization do what federalism promises? -- Minority protection mechanisms as means to prevent and settle disputes over sovereignty -- pt. 3. Sovereignty and diversity in practice -- The legal regulation of secession: lessons from Yugoslavia and Canada -- Final status for Kosovo: should we really be petrified with the partition option? -- Higher law making as a political resource: constitutional amendments and the constructive fragmentation of sovereignty in India.
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Papers presented at the conference Legal and Political Solutions to Disputes over Sovereignty--From Kosovo to Quebec, organized by the Law Faculty, University of Belgrade, 8-9 July 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sovereignty, statehood, and the diversity challenge -- pt. 1.Theorizing contested sovereignty -- Liberalism, secession and violence -- Why borders? Self-determination and the ethics of secession -- Role of uti possidetis in determining boundaries -- pt. 2.Reconciling sovereignty and diversity -- Trust and tolerance as state making values in multicultural societies -- Can decentralization do what federalism promises? -- Minority protection mechanisms as means to prevent and settle disputes over sovereignty -- pt. 3. Sovereignty and diversity in practice -- The legal regulation of secession: lessons from Yugoslavia and Canada -- Final status for Kosovo: should we really be petrified with the partition option? -- Higher law making as a political resource: constitutional amendments and the constructive fragmentation of sovereignty in India.

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