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The right to have rights: Citizenship in newly independent OSCE countries

The right to have rights: Citizenship in newly independent OSCE countries The right to have rights: Citizenship in newly independent OSCE countries Erika B. Schlager1 'Citizenship is man's basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights. Remove this priceless possession and there remains a stateless person, disgraced and degraded in the eyes of his countrymen.' U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, dissenting, Perez v. Brownell (1958) 'History will judge this Conference not by what we say here today, but by what we do tomorrow - not only by the promises we make, but by the promises we keep.' President Gerald Ford, at the signing of the Helsinki Final Act (1975) 1. Introduction Questions relating to citizenship began to inch towards the top of oscE agendas in 1991 when the unthinkable actually happened: the Soviet Union sprung a leak. At first, only its pugnacious little 'break-away' Baltic states trickled out, but eventually all of its artificially crafted Soviet Socialist Republics came gushing forth. The sinking of the Soviet empire came as a shock to western governments, which may have hoped for and pressed for reform and democratization within the Warsaw Pact states, but were, in reality, unprepared for the changes that came. While government http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Helsinki Monitor (in 2008 continued as Security and Human Rights) Brill

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Brill
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© 1997 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0925-0972
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1571-814X
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10.1163/157181497X00151
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The right to have rights: Citizenship in newly independent OSCE countries Erika B. Schlager1 'Citizenship is man's basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights. Remove this priceless possession and there remains a stateless person, disgraced and degraded in the eyes of his countrymen.' U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, dissenting, Perez v. Brownell (1958) 'History will judge this Conference not by what we say here today, but by what we do tomorrow - not only by the promises we make, but by the promises we keep.' President Gerald Ford, at the signing of the Helsinki Final Act (1975) 1. Introduction Questions relating to citizenship began to inch towards the top of oscE agendas in 1991 when the unthinkable actually happened: the Soviet Union sprung a leak. At first, only its pugnacious little 'break-away' Baltic states trickled out, but eventually all of its artificially crafted Soviet Socialist Republics came gushing forth. The sinking of the Soviet empire came as a shock to western governments, which may have hoped for and pressed for reform and democratization within the Warsaw Pact states, but were, in reality, unprepared for the changes that came. While government

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Helsinki Monitor (in 2008 continued as Security and Human Rights) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1997

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