Ethnicity and International Law

Mohammad Shahabuddin is a lecturer in law at Keele University, where his research focuses on the postcolonial critique of the concept of ethnicity and its role in the making of international law.

• 1. Ethnicity in the discourse on the 'self' and the 'other': liberal and conservative traditions, and their implications; 2. Colonialism and international law: a story of two traditions; 3. Ethnicity in interwar international law: the minority protection regime in perspective; 4. Ethnicity in the era of liberalism: human rights, minority protection, and the post-Cold War paradigm shifts; 5. Liberal individualism meets conservative passion: international law responses to ethnicity in ethnic conflicts; Conclusion.

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