Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East : : a From Theory to Practice / / Edited by Olgun Akbulut; Elçin Aktoprak.

• Superior document: Studies in International Minority and Group Rights ; 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Akbulut, Olgun,; Aktoprak, Elçin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in International Minority and Group Rights ; 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 pages).

This volume, Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East: From Theory to Practice , is novel from several perspectives. It combines theory with facts on the ground, going beyond legal perspectives without neglecting existing laws and their implementation. Theoretical discussions transcend examining existing autonomy models in certain regions. It offers new models in the field, discussing such critical themes as environmentalism. Traditional concepts such as self-determination and well-known successful autonomy examples, including the Åland Islands, Basque and Catalonian models, are examined from different perspectives. Some chapters in this volume focus on certain regions (including Turkey, Syria, and Iraq) which have only recently received scholarly attention. Chapters complement one another in terms of their theoretical inputs and outputs from the field.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contributors -- Theoretical Perspectives -- The Right of Self-Determination in International Law / Gudmundur Alfredsson -- Nations, Territorial Minorities, Democratic Theory and National Self-Determination / Ephraim Nimni -- The Multiple Paths to Territorial Autonomy: Examples and Conceptual Underpinnings / Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark -- Distribution of Legislative Powers in a Sub-state Context – a Comparison of Double Enumerations in Federal and Autonomy Settings / Markku Suksi -- Autonomous Communities and Environmental Law: The Basque Case / Daniele Conversi and Xabier Ezeizabarrena -- European and Middle Eastern Perspectives -- Territorial Autonomy and Minority Self-Government in Spain: Catalonia and the Basque Country / Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez -- Territorial and Cultural Self-Governance in Italy: Strengths and Challenges of South Tyrol’s Autonomy / Andrea Carlà and Sergiu Constantin -- Self-Determination, Federalism and Autonomy in the Middle East / Thomas Schmidinger -- Democratic Confederalism in Syria: The Nation-State, the Kurds, and International Law / Thomas James Phillips -- Legal Background of Autonomy Arrangements in Turkey from Historical Perspectives / Olgun Akbulut -- Unpacking the ‘Democratic Confederalism’ and ‘Democratic Autonomy’: Proposals of Turkey’s Kurdish Movement / Cengiz Gunes -- Back Matter -- Index.