Preface / Knut Vollebaek

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Acknowledgements

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PART ONE

1.

National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: Filling the Legal Vacuum? / Francesco Palermo

3

2.

Diversity and Co-existence in International Society: The Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations in Historical Perspective / Jennifer Jackson Preece

29

3.

Minorities, states and international security: The contribution of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations to managing the "minority problem" / Petra Roter

45

4.

The "Kinterested" State and the HCNM Bolzano "Rules of Engagement" / Bogdan Aurescu

63

5.

A reconsideration and more in-depth analysis of the relationship between the prohibition of (racial) discrimination and minority protection: The Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations revisited / Kristin Henrard

79

6.

The Rights of Minorities and their Interstate Dimension. Interrelationship between the HCNM Recommendations and the Framework Convention / Alan Phillips

111

7.

The Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations, Minority Rights and Trends in Minority Protection / Mitja Zagar

129

8.

The Conferral of Citizenship en masse by Kin-States: Creeping Annexation or Responsibility to Protect? / Enrico Milano

145

PART TWO

9.

States, Minorities and Regional Hegemons in the South Caucasus: Whose Responsibility to Protect? / Natalie Sabanadze

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10.

A Reading of the Comprehensive Proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement in light of the OSCE HCNM Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations / Annelies Verstichel

185

11.

The Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: The case of Estonia / Elena Jurado

193

12.

National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: Commentary from Country Perspective / Kinga Gal

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Appendix

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Contributors

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Index

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