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Democracy, Minorities and International Law

Democracy, Minorities and International Law 266 Book Reviews / International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 16 (2009) 261–268 S. Wheatley, Democracy, Minorities and International Law , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005. ISBN: 13 978 0 521 84898 5, xxii and 201 pages, index, price: GBP 53, USD 96 (hardback). Democracy, Minorities and International Law by Steven Wheatley, Reader in International Law at the University of Leeds, has an admirably ambitious scope. In three chapters it covers, respectively, minority rights, self-determination and democracy. Bringing the law on these three elements together creates the essential context for modern minority-state relations – and this is the book’s valuable con- tribution – but it is also a tight fi t for its relatively short length of 198 pages. Th e three chapters are based on considerable research (sadly not compiled into a bibliography), which focuses in large part on the human rights covenants and practice involving the Human Rights Committee. Th is, in itself, makes the book a valuable source of current practice on these instruments. Chapter 1 runs over the history of minority rights, the covenants, defi nitions of minorities and then other instruments, like the United Nations (UN) Decla- ration, the European Framework Convention http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal on Minority and Group Rights Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1385-4879
eISSN
1571-8115
DOI
10.1163/157181109X427770
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266 Book Reviews / International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 16 (2009) 261–268 S. Wheatley, Democracy, Minorities and International Law , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005. ISBN: 13 978 0 521 84898 5, xxii and 201 pages, index, price: GBP 53, USD 96 (hardback). Democracy, Minorities and International Law by Steven Wheatley, Reader in International Law at the University of Leeds, has an admirably ambitious scope. In three chapters it covers, respectively, minority rights, self-determination and democracy. Bringing the law on these three elements together creates the essential context for modern minority-state relations – and this is the book’s valuable con- tribution – but it is also a tight fi t for its relatively short length of 198 pages. Th e three chapters are based on considerable research (sadly not compiled into a bibliography), which focuses in large part on the human rights covenants and practice involving the Human Rights Committee. Th is, in itself, makes the book a valuable source of current practice on these instruments. Chapter 1 runs over the history of minority rights, the covenants, defi nitions of minorities and then other instruments, like the United Nations (UN) Decla- ration, the European Framework Convention

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Published: Jan 1, 2009

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