Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber Bücher

This volume represents a collaboration between Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein and Princeton University, which created the Liechtenstein Research Program on Self-Determination at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The purpose of the collaboration is to create a venue for discussion and debate on the subject of self-determination and the international order. Fifteen chapters cover topics including the Liechtenstein Draft Convention on Self-Determination Through Self-Administration; the UN and national self-determination; Mayan self-determination multicultural models and educational choice for Guatemala; self-determination and self-administration in the former Soviet Union; self-determination and nation-building in post-Cold War Africa; and the rise and decline of self-determination movements in India. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Focusing especially on the era since the Cold War, political scientists, other scholars, and government officials examine both empirically and conceptually the causes and impacts of people striving for self-determination and autonomy. They consider the legal, political-administrative, ethnic-cultural, economic, and strategic dimensions; and try to consider examples from all major regions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)