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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
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2009
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