New World Order

Mortimer Sellers Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law and Associate Professor of Law,University of Baltimore

• Contents: Mortimer Sellers, Introduction -- Robert McCorquodale, Human Rights and Self-Determination -- Gerry J. Simpson, The Diffusion of Sovereignty: Self-Determinations in the Post-Colonial Age -- Vladimir Rudnitsky, Self-Determination in a Modern World: Conceptual Development and Practical Application -- Nergis Canefe, Sovereignty Without Nationalism? A Critical Assessment of Minority Rights Beyond the Sovereign Nation-State Model -- Sohail H. Hashmi, Self-Determination and Secession in Islamic Thought -- Stephanie Lawson, Self-Determination as Ethnocracy: Perspectives from the South Pacific -- Rene Provost, Problems of Indeterminacy and Characterization in the Application of Humanitarian Law -- Gian Luca Burci, United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Situations of Internal Conflict -- Philippe Ch. A. Guillot, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Multidimensional Peace Operations of the United Nations -- Nira Wickramasinghe, From Human Rights to Good Governance: The Aid Regime in the 1990s

'For those interested in the evolving area of human rights in international relations, this volume provides well-presented theoretical arguments surrounding the key issues, as well as detailed case studies. For scholars in this field, this volume is highly recommended reading.'Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies