Abstract

Pentassuglia’s book offers a comprehensive overview of the treatment of minorities within international law, with three main objectives. First, it outlines the substantive entitlements available to minorities by contrasting them to the wider background of international human rights. Second, it describes and underscores the role of international institutions in the development of protective regimes. Finally, it addresses special problems and questions that arise in the context of minority rights, such as the difficulty of arriving at a universal definition of the term “minority”.