European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Volume 4 (2004/2005)

GENERAL EDITORS: Arie Bloed;Rainier Hofmann;Joseph Marko;James Mayall;John Packer;Marc Weller. MANAGING EDITORS: Emma Lantschner; Tove H. Malloy. ASSISTANT EDITORS: Marnie Lloydd; Gabriel N. Toggenburg; Leonhard Voltmer; Matthew Ward.

Foreword; PART I: ARTICLES A. General Articles Section: Towards a New Paradigm of Minority Law-Making: A Rejoinder to Palermo and Woelk’s Law of Diversity Tove H. Malloy; Minorities and Religions in Europe. Case Study: The Assyro-Chaldeans of Turkey Joseph Yacoub; Minority Rights in China: A Legal Overview Joshua Castellino and Elvira Domínguez Redondo; Situating Federalism, Minorities and Communalism in the Indian Polity
Arshi Khan; Minority Representation within the Spanish Electoral System Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez ; Still No Place to Go: Nomadic Peoples’ Territorial Rights in Europe Jérémie Gilbert; B. Special Focus: Ombudsman Institutions: Ombudsmen and Similar Institutions for Protection against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Andrea Krizsán; Building up a Specialized Body Mikko Puumalainen; The Ombudsman as Advocate Philip Giddings ; Removing Barriers – The Accessibility of an Ombudsman or National Human Rights Institution to Vulnerable Communities Marnie Lloydd ; Towards Increased Cooperation between National Ombudsman Institutions and International Minority Rights Mechanisms Rianne Letschert ; Ombudsman Institutions and Ethnic Conflict in Russia and Ukraine: A Failure of Local Institution-building? Bill Bowring ; C. Special Focus: the EU and Minority Protection: Minority Protection and Anti-discrimination Policies: Synergies and Challenges at the EU Level Birgit Weyss and Alexander Lubich ; Looking Back at Ten Years of EU Minority Conditionality vis-à-vis Central and Eastern European Candidate States Guido Schwellnus ; Unravelling a Trade-Off: Reconciling Minority Rights and Full Citizenship in Turkey Dilek Kurban; Recent Developments on the Status of (Minority) Languages within the EU Framework
Niamh Nic Shuibhne; The Long-Term Residents Directive John Handoll; Integrating the Roma into European Society: Time for a New Initiative Olivier De Schutter and Annelies Verstichel; D. Special Focus: The Caucasus Region: Integrating Minorities in Weak States: The Case of Georgia Jonathan Wheatley; Building a New Regime of Interethnic Cooperation in Armenia? Shavarsh Khachatryan; Ethnic Profile of Post-Soviet Azerbaijan Arif Yunusov; Durable Solutions for Meskhetian Turks: The Issue Revisited
Andrei Khanzhin; PART II: REPORTS A. International Developments; Review of the Monitoring Process of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Alain Chablais; The Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: June 2004 – June 2005 Vesna Crnić-Grotić; The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights Roberta Medda-Windischer; The Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: July 2004 – June 2005
Krzysztof Drzewicki and Vincent de Graaf; Minorities at the United Nations: The UN Working Group on Minorities in Context Asbjørn Eide; Minorities and Indigenous Peoples’ Protection: The Practice of UN Treaty Bodies in 2004 Nathalie Prouvez; B. National Developments: Recent Developments in Romania on the Draft Law on the Status of National Minorities: Déjà Vu All Over Again? D. Christopher Decker; The Referendum on Decentralization in Macedonia in 2004: A Litmus
Test for Macedonia’s Interethnic Relations
Joseph Marko; Democratization as a Means of Conflict Resolution in Moldova
Oleh Protsyk.