Table of Contents

Part l. The Evolution of Minority Rights Debate
1: The New Debate over Minority Rights
2: Liberal Culturalism: An Emerging Consensus?
3: Do We Need a Liberal Theory of Minority Rights?
Reply to Carens, Young, Parekh, and Frost
Part ll. Ethnocultural Justice
4: Human Rights and Ethnocultural Justice
5: Minority Nationalism and Multination Federalism
6: Theorizing Indigenous Rights
7: Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice
8: The Theory and Practice of Immigrant Multiculturalism
9: A Crossroad in Race Relations
Part lll. Misunderstanding Nationalism
10: From Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism to Liberal
Nationalism
11: Cosmopolitanism, Nation-States, and Minority Nationalism
12: Misunderstanding Nationalism
13: The Paradox of Nationalism
14: American Multiculturalism in the International Arena
15: Minority Nationalism and Immigrant Integration
Part lV: Democratic Citizenship in Multiethnic States
16: Education for Citizenship
17: Citizenship in an Era of Globalization: Commentary on Held
18: Liberal Egalitarianism and Civic Republicanism: Friends or Enemies?

About the Author

Will Kymlicka is the author of four books published by Oxford University Press: "Liberalism, Community, and Culture" (1989), "Contemporary Political Philosophy" (1990), "Multicultural Citizenship" (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, and "Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada" (1998). He is also the editor of
"Justice in Political Philosophy" (Elgar, 1992), "The Rights of Minority Cultures" (Oxford, 1995), and "Ethnicity and Group Rights (NYU, 1997)". He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Queens University.

Reviews

Takes a characteristically coherent and thoughtful multiculturalist stand on various issues such as global distributive justice, citizenship in multinational states, nationalism and federalism. Nations and Nationalism Kymlicka's criticisms set extremely high standards of rigor and even-handedness for critics of his own views ... this volume represents a further distinguished contribution to the remarkable recent flowering of Canadian political thought by one of its major representatives. Canadian Journal of Political Science Kymlicka's mid-level theory successfully tackles the confusion and obfuscation in our everyday discourse on ethnocultural justice ... displays a sophisticated philosophical engagement with reality, which exemplifies the very best of mid-level and applied contemporary political philosophy ... essential reading for anyone interested in the minority rights debate. Democratization Politics in the Vernacular presents a collection of extremely interesting and well-written essays that offer insightful and thought-provoking analysis of a number of issues central to the ongoing discourse surrounding minority rights. Importantly, its arguments are equally accessible to specialists and non-specialists, and the book contains a substantial independent bibliography and a thorough, helpful index. Shaun Young, Canadian Public Administration