TY  - BOOK
AU  - McWhinney,Edward
TI  - Self-determination of peoples and plural-ethnic states in contemporary international law: failed states, nation-building and the alternative, federal option 
SN  - 9789004158351 (hardback : alk. paper)
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
KW  - United Nations
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - State succession
KW  - Nationalities, Principle of
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Federal government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -