Table of Contents

Contents: Mortimer Sellers, Introduction -- Robert McCorquodale, Human Rights and Self-Determination -- Gerry J. Simpson, The Diffusion of Sovereignty: Self-Determinations in the Post-Colonial Age -- Vladimir Rudnitsky, Self-Determination in a Modern World: Conceptual Development and Practical Application -- Nergis Canefe, Sovereignty Without Nationalism? A Critical Assessment of Minority Rights Beyond the Sovereign Nation-State Model -- Sohail H. Hashmi, Self-Determination and Secession in Islamic Thought -- Stephanie Lawson, Self-Determination as Ethnocracy: Perspectives from the South Pacific -- René Provost, Problems of Indeterminacy and Characterization in the Application of Humanitarian Law -- Gian Luca Burci, United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Situations of Internal Conflict -- Philippe Ch. A. Guillot, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Multidimensional Peace Operations of the United Nations -- Nira Wickramasinghe, From Human Rights to Good Governance: The Aid Regime in the 1990s

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Also available in hardback, 9781859730591 GBP55.00 (August, 1996)

About the Author

Mortimer Sellers Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law and Associate Professor of Law,University of Baltimore

Reviews

'For those interested in the evolving area of human rights in international relations, this volume provides well-presented theoretical arguments surrounding the key issues, as well as detailed case studies. For scholars in this field, this volume is highly recommended reading.' Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies