The European Yearbook of Minority Issues provides a critical and timely review of contemporary developments in minority-majority relations in Europe. It combines analysis, commentary and documentation in relation to conflict management, international legal developments and domestic legislation affecting minorities in Europe.Part I contains scholarly articles and, in 2001/2, features three special focus sections ('Minority Rights as a New Regime of Multilevel Governance in Europe', 'Non-Discrimination' and 'Complex Power-Sharing Arrangements as a Means of Overcoming Self-Determination Disputes'), accompanied by a miscellaneous articles section.Part II reviews the implementation of minority legislation and international standards at the universal and regional levels as well as new developments in relation to them and contains a chronology of events.Apart from providing a unique annual overview of minority issues for both scholars and practitioners in this field, the Yearbook will be an indispensable reference tool for libraries, research institutes as well as governments and international organisations.

Preface. Part I: Articles. A. Minority Rights as a New Regime of Multilevel Governance in Europe. Keeping the State: Religious Toleration in Early Modern France and the Role of the State in Minority Conflicts; B. de Cavalho. On the Models of Minority Rights Supervision in Europe and How They Affect a Changing Concept of Sovereignty; G. Pentassuglia. The system of International Law: The Right to Self-Determination, Minority Rights and Patterns of Human Rights Violations Connections with the Breakup or Implosion of States; A. Carty. Managing the 'Minority' Problem in Post-Cold War Europe Within the Framework of a Multilayered Regime for the Protection of National Minorities; P. Roter. Theory and Practice of European Crisis Management: Test Case Macedonia; U. Schneckener. B. Non-Discrimination. The Evolving Right to Equality; A.H.E. Morawa. Some Thoughts about Non-Discrimination and Access to the Public Service; F. Selbmann. The Race Directive: A New Dimension in the Fight against Ethnic Discrimination in Europe; G.N. Toggenburg. C. Complex Power-Sharing Arrangements as a Means of Overcoming Self-Determination Disputes. Power-Sharing and Ethnic Conflict: The Consociational-Integrative Dichotomy and Beyond; C. Kettley. Recent Trends in Complex Power-Sharing in Bosnia and Herzegovina; F. Bieber. The Matignon Process and Insular Autonomy as a Response to Self-Determination Claims in Corsica; F. Daftary. Consociational Theory and Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement; J. McGarry. No Easy Solutions: Comments on the Resolution of Self-Determination Disputes Through Complex Power-Sharing Arrangements; T.R. Gurr. D. Miscellaneous Articles. Multiethnicity or Binationalism? The Framework Agreement and the Future of the Macedonian State; J. Engstrom. Misperception and Minority Rights: Romania's Security Dilemma? P. Roe. Romani Political Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe; P. Vermeersch. Minority Rights Protection in the United Kingdom; J. Turner. Part II: Developments. A. International Developments. Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights; F. Buonomo. Review of the Work of the Advisory Committee on the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities; R. Hofmann. The Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and Other Treaty Monitoring Bodies; A.H.E. Morawa. The European Court of Human Rights; R. Medda-Windischer. Protection of National Minorities through Bilateral Agreements in South Eastern Europe; E. Lantschner, R. Medda-Windischer. The Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities January 2001 May 2002; B. National Developments. The Hungarian 'Status Law'on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries; S. Constantin. The 2001 Law on National Minorities of the Czech Republic; M. Hofmann. C. Chronological Review. Ethnopolitics in Europe, 2000/2001; S. Risse-Lobis.