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Lessons to Be Learned on Autonomy and on Human Rights from the Faeroese Situation Since 1992

Lessons to Be Learned on Autonomy and on Human Rights from the Faeroese Situation Since 1992 481 Lessons to Be Learned on Autonomy and on Human Rights from the Faeroese Situation Since 1992 LISE LYCK Copenhagen Business School, Institute of Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark 1. Why Study the Faeroese Case and the Danish Autonomy Model? Sovereignty discussions and constitutional questions have been on the world agenda the last years. Some states transfer decision making to a supemational level and this is followed closely of the medias and take the headlines in the newspapers. However, at the same time there is a struggle for more sovereignty and independency resulting in an increased number of states and in an increasing number of autonomies. This development is not put on the front pages of the newspapers although it is an important characteristic of the world development of our time. After World War I the number of states were 51. Today the number is close to 200 with a heavy increase since World War II. More than a fourth of the states are ministates, defined as states with a population of less than 1 million. After World War II the only ministates were the six wellknown ministates of Europe. It means that the increase in the number of ministates http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nordic Journal of International Law Brill

Lessons to Be Learned on Autonomy and on Human Rights from the Faeroese Situation Since 1992

Lyck, Lise
Nordic Journal of International Law , Volume 64 (3): 481 – Jan 1, 1995
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© 1995 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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481 Lessons to Be Learned on Autonomy and on Human Rights from the Faeroese Situation Since 1992 LISE LYCK Copenhagen Business School, Institute of Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark 1. Why Study the Faeroese Case and the Danish Autonomy Model? Sovereignty discussions and constitutional questions have been on the world agenda the last years. Some states transfer decision making to a supemational level and this is followed closely of the medias and take the headlines in the newspapers. However, at the same time there is a struggle for more sovereignty and independency resulting in an increased number of states and in an increasing number of autonomies. This development is not put on the front pages of the newspapers although it is an important characteristic of the world development of our time. After World War I the number of states were 51. Today the number is close to 200 with a heavy increase since World War II. More than a fourth of the states are ministates, defined as states with a population of less than 1 million. After World War II the only ministates were the six wellknown ministates of Europe. It means that the increase in the number of ministates

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