"Self- determination of peoples and plural ethic states in contemporary international law: failed states, nation-building and the alternative federal option"
- Leiden Martinus Nijhoff Pub. 2007
- 133p.
In analysing the contemporary International Law principles as to Self-determination of Peoples, Dr. Edward McWhinney gives a special attention to the crisis of multinational states. A special concluding chapter draws on the empirical record of the historical, often trial-and-error experience of the Succession states to the Versailles treaties settlements and to the assorted acts of Decolonisation of the former European Imperial, Colonial powers.