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Title Minority self-government in Europe and the Middle East : from theory to practice / edited by Olgun Akbulut, Elçin Aktoprak
Published Leiden : Brill Nijhoff, [2019]
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Series Studies in international minority and group rights ; Volume 15
Studies in international minority and group rights ; v. 15.
Contents Intro; Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East: From Theory to Practice; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives; 1 The Right of Self-Determination in International Law; 2 Nations, Territorial Minorities, Democratic Theory and National Self-Determination; 3 The Multiple Paths to Territorial Autonomy: Examples and Conceptual Underpinnings; 4 Distribution of Legislative Powers in a Sub-state Context -- a Comparison of Double Enumerations in Federal and Autonomy Settings; 5 Autonomous Communities and Environmental Law: The Basque Case
Part 2: European and Middle Eastern Perspectives6 Territorial Autonomy and Minority Self-Government in Spain: Catalonia and the Basque Country; 7 Territorial and Cultural Self-governance in Italy: Strengths and Challenges of South Tyrol's Autonomy; 8 Self-determination, Federalism and Autonomy in the Middle East; 9 Democratic Confederalism in Syria: The Nation-State, the Kurds, and International Law; 10 Legal Background of Autonomy Arrangements in Turkey from Historical Perspectives; 11 Unpacking the 'Democratic Confederalism' and 'Democratic Autonomy': Proposals of Turkey's Kurdish Movement
Summary This volume on 'Minority Self-government in Europe and the Middle East: From Theory to Practice' is novel from several perspectives. It combines theory with facts on the ground, going beyond legal perspectives without neglecting existing laws and their implementation. Theoretical discussions transcend examining existing autonomy models in certain regions. It offers new models in the field, discussing such critical themes as environmentalism. Traditional concepts such as self-determination and, well-known successful autonomy examples, including the Aland Islands, Basque and Catalonian models, are examined from different perspectives. Some chapters of this volume focus on certain regions (including Turkey, Syria and, Iraq) which have only recently received scholarly attention. Chapters complement one another in terms of their theoretical inputs and outputs from the field
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Minorities.
Minorities
Politics and government
Self-determination.
Autonomy.
SUBJECT Europe -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045733
Middle East -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090511
Subject Europe
Middle East
Form Electronic book
Author Akbulut, Olgun, editor
Aktoprak, Elçin, editor.
ISBN 9004405453
9789004405455