Review: Citizenship East and West
| Date | 01 March 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209605100115 |
| Published date | 01 March 1996 |
| Author | Robert Young |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/NATION
&
STATE
165
United
Nations
Security
Council
either
under
Chapter
vii
or
under
article
51
of
the
Charter.
He recognizes
the
primary
role
of
the
United
States
in
such
interventions
and
concludes
that
without
its
military
and
political
might
collective
interventions
would be
impossible.
The
problem
with
this
section
of
the
book
is
that
his
examination
of
the
conditions
or
requirements
of
collective
intervention
do
not
relate
very clearly to
his
peculiar resolution
of
ethnic
conflicts.
One
has
the
impression
that
under
the
banner
of
protecting
the
human
or
col-
lective
rights
of
ethnic
groups,
great
powers
give
themselves
a
mandate
to
downsize
the
power
of
those
polyethnic
countries
that either
have
not
been
able to
develop
a
strong
state
or that
are
regional
powers
aiming
to
destabilize
their
regional
order.
Furthermore,
there
is
a
prob-
lem
of
applicability: how
can
warring
parties
cease
hostilities
and
com-
mence
a
process
based
on Gottlieb's
functional
approach?
Would
they
be
able to
forget
quickly
enough their mutual
hatred
and
in
some
cases
the
atrocities
they
have
committed
against
each
other
and proceed
to
elaborate
an
intricate
architecture
of
jurisdictions?
This
book
is
sensitive to
the
weakening
of
the
centralized
state
and
the
movement
towards
political
decentralization
based
on
a
plurality
of
sovereignties.
It succeeds
in
conveying
the
urgency
of
finding
creative
solutions
to co-existence
and
interdependence
between
ethnic
com-
munities sharing
the
same
geopolitical
space.
Onnig
Beylerian/Universitý
du
Quebec
As
Montreal
CITIZENSHIP
EAST AND
WEST
Edited
by
Andr6
Liebich
and
Daniel
Warner
with
Jasna
Dragovic
London
and
New
York:
Kegan
Paul
International and
Columbia
Uni-
versity
Press,
1995,
xii,
223pp,
US$76.
5o
The proceedings
of
a
conference
held
in
Geneva
are
published
here
in seven
substantial
papers,
six
comments,
six
reports of
discussions,
a
summary,
and
an
introduction
and
conclusion.
Because
the
partici-
pants
were
a
multidisciplinary
lot,
from
very
diverse
backgrounds,
the
debates
among
them
are
often
revealing,
even
though
few
readers
will
find
all
the
papers
satisfying.
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