DEMOCRACY, MINORITIES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW by Steven Wheatley ( 9780521848985 )

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DEMOCRACY, MINORITIES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

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Steven Wheatley

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 December, 2005

Series:

Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law 42

Pages:

226

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Examines the regulation of cultural conflicts from the perspective of international law.

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This work explores the contribution that international law may make to the resolution of culture conflicts - political disputes between the members of different ethno-cultural groups - in democratic States. International law recognises that persons belonging to minorities have the right to enjoy their own culture and peoples have the right to self-determination without detailing how these principles are to be put into effect. The emergence of democracy as a legal obligation of States permits the international community to concern itself with both the procedure and substance of 'democratic' decisions concerning ethno-cultural groups. Democracy is not to be understood simply as majority rule. Cultural conflicts in democratic States must be resolved in a way that is either acceptable or defensible and defeasible to all citizens, including persons belonging to ethno-cultural minorities. Democracy, Minorities and International Law examines the implications of this recognition.

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