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Self-determination and an Indigenous State
Self-determinationRightsSelf-determination, to is of central importance to the vindicationSelf-determinationindigenous state of the Rights of...
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Indigenous Parliamentary Representation
Consociational theoryRightstheory requires that distinct minorities should be granted proportional representation in the organs of government. While...
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Tools and Forms for the Realization of Internal Self-Determination: Systems of Power Sharing
There is a need to accommodate the identity differences and settle the demands for secessions active all around the world, undergoing under the...
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The Blind-Spot in Protecting Global Minorities: A Blue-Print for Strengthening the Normative Framework?
Fears over the tyranny of majorities towards smaller ethnic, linguistic and religious communities led progressive thinkers and scholars in the mode...
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The Legal Framework of Centre-Local Connections in Malaysia. Beyond the Postcolonial Narrative: Legacy or Reinvention?
The Malaysian experience of decentralisation is one of the Asian cases of shift from a strong ‘centripetal’ political system towards power-sharing...
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The Phenomenon of Secession
Despite the centuries-long practice and the general meaning of interruption of certain continuity, still, it is difficult to understand the political...
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Academic Freedom and Cross-Border Cooperation: Conceptual Reflections and a Contextual Analysis in Relation to the South Tyrol Alpine Borderland
Academic freedom is a complex concept. The same is true of cross-border cooperation in general terms and in relation to the policy field of higher...
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I Have Cleansed My Honour: Multiculturalism and the Dutch Pillar System
This chapter discusses Dutch tolerance in relation to cultural minorities that endorse illiberal traditions. The influx of immigrants from foreign...
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The End of Belgium As We Know It: From Consociational Democracy to Partitocratic Deadlock?
The terrorist attacks of March 2016 have rekindled the controversy about Belgian mismanagement. Among various explanations, the most credible ones...
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Ideological Commitments and Constitutional Projects of Cross-Border Parties in the Irish Context
In 1922, 26 counties in the south of the island of Ireland left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State. Six counties in the north of the...
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The Netherlands: The Pragmatics of a Flexible, Europeanised Constitution
The Constitution of the Netherlands, which dates back to 1814–15, is an evolutionary constitution, based on incremental historical developments. A...
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The Principle of Subsidiarity
After elaborating on the problem of scale in Chaps. 4 , 5 , and...
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Introduction
The introductory chapter presents the theoretical and conceptual framework of Tolerance: Experiments with Freedom in the Netherlands. The book...
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The Future of the United Kingdom’s Territorial Constitution: Can the Union Survive?
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum has failed to settle the question of Scotland’s constitutional future, notwithstanding that a clear...
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In Kee** with the Spirit of the Albertine Statute—Constitutionalisation of the National Unification
This chapter deals with the difficult process of constitutionalisationConstitutionalisation which characterised Italian UnificationItalian national...
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The Emerging Interactionist Paradigm and the Ideals of Democracy and Rule of Law
This chapter presents the theory of interactive legislation in the context of a broader interactionist paradigm. I show how different types of newly...
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Global Constitutionalism and International Economic Law: The Case of International Investment Law
Are there discernable the outlines of an emergent global economic constitutional order? If the current global scene is understood as hybrid and...
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The Democratic Deficit in the (Economic) Governance of the European Union
Common European legal thinking reveals itself especially in the existence of a common European constitutional law (Ius Publicum Europaeum Commune)....
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Belgium: A Broken Marriage?
Although a small country, Belgium has a mind boggling governance model. Starting out in 1830 as a highly centralized francophone nation, under...
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The Current Challenges on the Belgian Federalism and the Sixth Reform of the State
Since 1993, Belgium is officially a federal state, composed of three communities and three regions, as the first—new at the time—article of the...