Tim Dertwinkel (1 results)
Language: English
Published by Martinus Nijhoff, 2008
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover, x + 588 pages, shipping weight over 1kg, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Short creases to page corners. Boards show shelfworn marks and scratches. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The European… Yearbook of Minority Issues provides a critical and timely review of contemporary developments in minority-majority relations in Europe. It combines analysis, commentary and documentation in relation to conflict management, international legal developments and domestic legislation affecting minorities in Europe. Part I contains scholarly articles and features two special focus sections. Part II reviews the implementation of minority legislation and international standards at the universal and regional levels as well as new developments in relation to them. Apart from providing a unique annual overview of minority issues for both scholars and practitioners in this field, the Yearbook is an indispensable reference tool for libraries, research institutes as well as governments and international organizations. -- Contents: I: Articles -- Political Participation of Minorities; New Media and the Implementation of Instruments in Support of Minority Rights Related to Media; Minority Protection, Data Collection and the Right to Privacy; Roma and Housing Rights in Europe: Possibilities for International Human Rights Law to Redress the Exclusion of Pariah Minorities. Slovakia: A Case Study; Draft for a Nordic Saami Convention; - Special Focus: Crossborder Cooperation and Minorities in Eastern Europe: Still Waiting for a Chance? - Introduction; Transnational and Trans-regional Cooperation and Effects on the Situation of Minorities: A Case Study of the Polish-Ukrainian Border Region; A Case Study on Crossborder Cooperation in the Ukrainian-Moldovan Border Region and Its Effects on the Respective Minorities; National Minorities and Crossborder Cooperation between Hungary and Croatia. A Case Study of Baranya, Hungary and Osijecko-baranjska County, Croatia; Crossborder Cooperation in Mid-Eastern Europe and Its Influence on Minorities: the Case of the Lithuanian Minority in Poland; Crossborder Cooperation and Minorities in Eastern Europe: Still Waiting for a Chance? A Summary and Evaluation of the Four Case Studies; - Special Focus: Diversity Management and Integration - Law and Politics of Diversity Management: A Neo-institutional Approach; Conceptualizing Democratic Diversity Management for Multicultural Societies: Theories of Society and Law; Diversity Management and Integration: From Ideas to Concepts; Creating an Integrated Society, Managing Diversity and Human Rights in Europe; II: Reports - International Developments - Completing the First Decade of Monitoring: Latest Developments under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities; Work of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (June 2006-June 2007); Recent Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights Concerning the Protection of Minorities (August 2006-December 2007); European Commission for Democracy through Law: Review of Recent Reports and Opinions Relevant to the Protection of National Minorities; Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (July 2006-December 2007); Activities of the United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues (July 2006-December 2007); - National Developments - Kosovo Constitution and Provisions for the Protection of Minorities in Europe; Legal and Policy Developments in the Russian Federation in 2007 with regard to the Protection of Minorities; Minorities and Georgia's Obligation and Commitments to the Council of Europe: A Review of recent Progress on the Fulfilment of Obligations and Commitments on National Minorities and Related Issues; Romanian Law on Ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; Appendix: List of International Norms.
