Download or read book Self-Determination of Peoples and Plural-ethnic States in Contemporary International Law written by Edward McWhinney and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In analysing the contemporary International Law principles as to Self-determination of Peoples, Dr. Edward McWhinney gives a special attention to the crisis of multinational states. A special concluding chapter draws on the empirical record of the historical, often trial-and-error experience of the Succession states to the Versailles treaties settlements and to the assorted acts of Decolonisation of the former European Imperial, Colonial powers.