National Minorities inInter-State Relations

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART ONE

1. National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: Filling the Legal Vacuum?

2. Diversity and Co-existence in International Society: The Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations in Historical Perspective

3. Minorities, states and international security: The contribution of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations to managing the “minority problem”

4. The “Kinterested” State and the HCNM Bolzano “Rules of Engagement”

5. A reconsideration and more in-depth analysis of the relationship between the prohibition of (racial) discrimination and minority protection: The Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations revisited

6. The Rights of Minorities and their Interstate Dimension. Interrelationship between the HCNM Recommendations and the Framework Convention

7. The Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations, Minority Rights and Trends in Minority Protection

8. The Conferral of Citizenship en masse by Kin-States:Creeping Annexation or Responsibility to Protect?

PART TWO

9. States, Minorities and Regional Hegemons in the South Caucasus: Whose Responsibility to Protect?

10. A Reading of the Comprehensive Proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement in light of the OSCE HCNM Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations

11. The Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: The case of Estonia

12. National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: Commentary from Country Perspective

Appendix

Contributors

Index