MINELRES: New article on minority rights in JEMIE Special Electronic Symposium

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Original sender: William McKinney <mckinney@ecmi.de>


New article in JEMIE Special Electronic Symposium: Will Kymlicka and
Exporting Liberal Pluralism: Western Political Theory and Ethnic
Relations in Eastern Europe

Pentassuglia, Gaetano. Minority Rights and the Role of Law: Reflections
on Themes of Discourse in Kymlicka's Approach to Ethnocultural Identity.

http://www.ecmi.de/jemie/download/Focus4-2002_Pentassuglia_Kymlicka.pdf

This paper discusses the international legal dimension to Kymlicka's
theory of ethnocultural diversity and the prospects for achieving
consensus on a stronger set of justice-based international norms on
minority rights. Besides addressing specific human rights issues on
their own terms, the author argues that the impact of Western
experiences in addressing minority questions, while of considerable
importance to locally-generated minority protection strategies in the
East, may prove more limited in generating a credible set of
generally-binding regimes rooted in considerations of justice than is
expected. Minority rights standards, it is contended, have so far been
perceived - by both East and West - primarily as security tools. This
raises not only the problem of how best to strengthen minority rights as
part of human rights law, but also the need to clarify the ultimate
vision of minority rights law itself.

JEMIE - Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
The whole JEMIE Issue 4/2002 can be downloaded at:
http://www.ecmi.de/jemie/special_4_2002.html