TY - GEN AU - Skurbaty, Zelim TI - Beyond a One-Dimensional State : : an Emerging Right to Autonomy? SN - 9789004142657 AV - KZ1269 BEY 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Leiden : PB - Martinus Nijhoff publishers. KW - Autonomy N1 - Includes index and bibliography; Acknowledgements; Biographical Notes; Prolegomenon: Prefatory Words by Max van der Stoel, Gudmundur Alfredsson and Morten Kjr̆um; Abbreviations; Introduction by Zelim A. Skurbaty; Autonomy as a Participatory Right in the Modern Democratic State; Legal Appraisal of Autonomy; Problems Related to the Economic Viability of Autonomous Arrangements; Conceptual Issues Pertaining to Autonomy; Meta-Legal and Philosophical Dimensions of Autonomy; Autonomy and Cultural Rights; International Guarantees of Autonomy; Autonomy: The Problem of Irredentism and Cross-Border Cooperation. Autonomy, Participation and Minority Rights Autonomy and Indigenous People; Autonomy, Minorities and Self-Determination; Failed Experiences with Autonomy; Autonomy in the Countries of Transition; Autonomy and Conflict Resolution; National and Regional Experiments with Autonomous Arrangements; Summary Conclusions; Index N2 - With a scholarly attention to analytical precision, factual accuracy, and scrupulous objectivity the authors of the present volume - coming from such diverse fields as international law, philosophy, ethics, economics, political science, - detail and explore the protean character of autonomy as both a concept (autonomy's subtypes, autonomy vs. other arrangements for the diffusion of power within heterogeneous societies, new definitions of the concept, etc.) and a practice (the potential of autonomy in the peaceful resolution of ethnic conflicts; comparative case studies, ranging from Greenland. ER -