InEthnic Identity and Minority Protection: Designation, Discrimination, and Brutalization, Thomas W. Simon examines a new framework for considering ethnic conflicts. In contrast to the more traditional theories of justice, Simons theory of injustice shifts focus away from group identity toward group harms, effectively making many problems, such as how to define minorities in international law, dramatically more manageable.Simon argues that instead of promoting legislative devices like proportional representation for minorities, it is more fruitful to seek adjudicative solutions to racial and ethnic-related conflicts. For example, resources could be shifted to quasi-judicial human-rights treaty bodies that have adopted an injustice approach. This injustice approach provides the foundation for Kosovos case for remedial secession, and helps to sort out the competing entitlement claims of Malays in different countries.Indeed, the priority of Thomas W. SimonsEthnic Identity and Minority Protection is to ensure the tales of designation and discrimination told at the beginning of the work do not become the stories of brutalization told at the end. In short, the challenge tackled in this text is to assure that reason reigns over hate.

Thomas W. Simon is professor of international law at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing University, China.

PrefacePart I: Stories of DesignationChapter One: Balkan TalesPart II: A Theory of InjusticeChapter Two: Injustice Trumps JusticePart III: Group TypesChapter Three: The Problems of RaceChapter Four: Ethnicity, An Outsider's ViewChapter Five: Minorities DefinedChapter Six: Citizenship as a WeaponPart Four: Institutions and SolutionsChapter Seven: The Judiciary versus the LegislatureChapter Eight: The United Nations on MinoritiesChapter Nine: Remedial SecessionPart Five: Case StudiesChapter Ten: Malays in Malaysia, South Africa, and the PhilippinesPart Six: Stories of BrutalizationChapter Eleven: Hate DebatesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author