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Self-Determination and National Minorities. By Thomas D. Musgrave. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xxxv, 274. Index. $95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Hurst Hannum
Hurst Hannum*
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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 93 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 274 - 276
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1999

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References

1 See, e.g., Antonio Cassese, Self-Determination of Peoples (1995); Hurst Hannum, Rethinking Self-Determination, 34 Va. J. Int’l L. 1, 17–25 (1993).

2 UN Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.5 (1994).

3 Adopted June 29, 1990, reprinted in 29 ILM 1305 (1990).

4 Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/29, Annex 1 (1993). A separate declaration on indigenous rights has been under consideration by the Organization of American States since 1989. See Hurst Hannum, The Protection of Indigenous Rights in the Inter-American System, in The Inter-American System of Human Rights 323 (David J. Harris & Stephen Livingstone eds., 1998).

5 The reviewer should confess to sharing similar views. See Hurst Hannum, Self-Determination, Yugoslavia, and Europe: Old Wine in New Bottles? 3 Transnat’l L. & Contemp. Probs. 57 (1993).

6 GA Res. 2625, UN GAOR, 25th Sess., Supp. No. 28, at 121, UN Doc. 8/8028 (1970).

7 More thoughtful recent examinations may be found in Cassese, supra note 1, and Patrick Thornberry, International Law and the Rights of Minorities (1991). Earlier works have more than adequately treated the pre-1989 situation. See, e.g., Lee C. Buch-Heit, Secession (1978); W. Ofuatey-Kodjoe, The Principle of Self-Determination in International Law (1977); Michla Pomerance, Self-Determination in Law and Practice (1982); and A. Rigo Sureda, The Evolution of the Right of Self-Determination (1973).