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Democracy, Minorities and International Law , by Steven Wheatley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, xxii + 198 + (index) 3pp. (£50 hardback). ISBN 0-521-84898-9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Umut Turksen
Umut Turksen*
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International Law and Human Rights Research Unit, University of the West of England, Bristol
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Legal Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 609 - 613
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 2006

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References

4. Wheatley, p. 62.

5. Ibid., pp. 17–34.

6. Such notions have been explored and commented on by a number of scholars. In particular, see contributions by Bendict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of Nationalism, (London: Verso Books, 1991); Adrian Hastings, Construction Of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

7. See for instance, Neil Walker, Relocating Sovereignty, (London: Ashgate, 2003); Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber, The Self-Determination of Peoples : Community, Nation, and State in an Interdependent World, (London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002); Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber (eds.), State Sovereignty as Social Construct, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Joseph Camilleri and Jim Falk, The End of Sovereignty? The Politics of a Shrinking and Fragmenting World, (London: Edward Elgar, 1992); R.B.J. Walker and Saul H. Mendlovitz (eds), Contending Sovereignties: Redefining Political Communities, (Boulder: L. Rienner Publishers, 1990).

8. Wheatley, p. 127.

9. For further commentary, see Graham Timmins (ed), Uncertain Europe: Building a New European Security Order? (London: Routledge, 2001).

10. Wheatley, p. 127.

11. Definitions of these terms are explained in detail in light of relevant legal instruments throughout the book.

12. See for instance, Mahuika et al. v New Zealand, Comm. No.547/1993, UN Doc. CCPR/C/70/D/547/1993, 15 November 2000 and Hopu and Bessert v France, Comm. No. 549/1993, UN Doc. CCPR/C/60/D/549/1993/Rev.1, 29 December 1997.

13. Wheatley, p. 186

14. Wheatley, p. 193.

15. Ibid., p. 194.